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Maxtor OneTouch ... or Don'tTouch?
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hello again.
A while ago I had some problems with a 250 GB Maxtor OneTouch external FW/USB drive. Apparently I had a bad cable. For a while the drive worked fine, and i was so happy with it, I bought 2 more. Bummer!
I have had so many problem ... with 2 of them so far. And I wonder if anybody else has experienced similar problems.
First, out of the blue, the drive I have used for storage of copies of my software and a disk-image of my computer plus tons of data wouldn't mount.
I tried to repaid permissions, I tried to fix it with DiskWarrior (3.0.2) and Norton 6 too. No luck. All programs reported directory problems
Finally I started my computer in OS 9 and succeded in mounting the drive.
I formatted (using Apple's Disk Utility on another computer - is there a better formatter?) one of the other Maxtor drives, and connected it to the faulty one ... yes ... wow .. I was succesful ... i copied (overnight) 178 GB of data. However, all the copying was in vane ... it took forever and half a summer - and it appeared all my data was there.
But when I restarted in OS 10.3.4, the faulty dive woun't mount, and the drive with the copied files was holding all 14 top-level folders, but no subfolders and no files at all.
Where did it all go? It was there just a minute ago? Or it seemed to be. And then ... all gone, and I was back to where I started.
OK, i don't have a problem with having problems, as long as they appear logical and solvable. But here I'm totally in the dark. I don' have a clue.
Why did it happen?
How can I prevent it form happing again?
Where did all my files go?
How could all the files be there and then not be there?
Will I ever be able to trust the Maxtor drives again?
Any clues?
Thank you in advance
Peter
PBG3/500 - 512 MB/60 GB OSX 10.3.4 and some Maxtor OneTouch 250 GB drives which may be for sale cheap ....
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Tenia Pedis
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I had the exact same issues with an IBM drive in an external firewire enclosure. Ended up getting a new drive under warranty because I found an unbelievable amount of bad sectors when using the PC only disk checking software that came with some other drive I purchased. Actually, I think the software came with the 120g Maxtor that I have inside my Cube! Bit of a pain.  Now I have Tech Tool Pro 4 protection turned on, and it saves drive and directory information at certain preset intervals, so if the problems happen again, it won't be a problem.  If you can get in under OS9, save all the data, and get the drives warrantied.
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Somewhere out there is my sanity..... but I'm not looking for it!
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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In an attempt to solve this problem, I attempted to run Disk Utilit again. It failed telling me that the disk could not be made inactive!
So I ran DiskWarrior 3.0.2 again. And now thingsreally started to be spooky.
The disk is named XT-1 (external 1), but was previously named Maxtor_1
I had XT-1 moiunted on thye desktop, but DiskWarrior saw it as Mactor_1 - the name it had prior to the last to formattings.
Now how the h... did that happen?
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Copying the files under OS9 presents me with another problem. Long filnames are trunkated into something unreadable .... very annoying and confusing
Peter
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