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we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. Solved: Maxtor back up drive giving me I/O Device Error Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Phil Payne, Dec 30, 2008. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Advertisement Phil Payne Thread Starter Joined: Dec 30, 2008 Messages: 16 I have a Dell Dimension XPS_GEN_3 Intel(R) Pentium (R) 4CPU 3.2Ghz 3.19 Ghz, 3.00Gb of RAM with Windows XP Pro SP2. Raid 1 (Mirror) config'n. Archive/Backup storage (problem) device is Maxtor One Touch. The device has been working correctly for some years. I see the drive letter for http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f149/i-o-device-error-on-maxtor-external-hard-drive-61152.html the drive in Windows Explorer but when I click to expand I get the following error message - "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" . The only recent activity that could have brought on this problem is my moving in a large volume of files and folders. I need to find out how I can regain access to the files in the storage device. I can not afford https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-maxtor-back-up-drive-giving-me-i-o-device-error.784953/ to lose these files. I have read previous thread on this type of problem but no clear solution for my situation and requirement. I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance. Phil Payne, Dec 30, 2008 #1 Sponsor ~Candy~ Retired Administrator Joined: Jan 27, 2001 Messages: 103,706 Hi and welcome. Could be a problem with the enclosure, I think I'd take it out of the case and slave it to the existing hard drive inside and see if it will work from there. ~Candy~, Dec 30, 2008 #2 Phil Payne Thread Starter Joined: Dec 30, 2008 Messages: 16 Thanks AkaCandy, I hope 'slaving' the drive amounts to just 'plug and play' and there are no software or other adjustments required otherwise I may have a problem as I haven't done anything lke this with hardware before. I'll give it a go and let you know what happens. Thanks again. Phil Payne, Dec 31, 2008 #3 Phil Payne Thread Starter Joined: Dec 30, 2008 Messages: 16 Hello AkaCandy, So, not exactly plug and play then. I have a spare bay beside HDD 0 and 1 that I can use but when looking at the cabling for some clue as to what to connect where, my ignorance stopped me continuing further. The connector pin configurations are slig

Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>I/O error...Solutions? Maxtor OneTouch 250gb> I/O error...Solutions? Maxtor OneTouch 250gb Tags: Maxtor Storage Last response: 12 April 2005 13:26 in Storage Share Anonymous a b G Storage 10 April 2005 21:29:21 Archived http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/140993-32-error-solutions-maxtor-onetouch-250gb from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) Hello there, I purchased a Maxtor Onetouch 250Gb drive just before christmas to hold my music collection and to act as a drive for audio recording. The other night everything froze as I was recording to it. I waited for at least 30 mins for the pc to unfreeze and then restarted the pc. Now when the drive is connected to the pc everything seems to start and run more slowly. The error i drive is split into 3 partitions. 100/100/33Gb. All three show up as installed and I can access 2 of the partitions files with no problems. But when I try to access the "my music" folder in one of the 100Gb partitions the computer hangs for a couple of minutes and then an error message appears saying there was an I/O error. What is this? IS this fatal? I have backed up at regular intervals but there is 3 error i maxtor weeks of data still on the drive which is crucial to me! I ran chkdsk /f and it identified about 35 bad sectors on the partition but when it came to rectifying the indexes [indices!!] it said that "an unspecified error occurred" and stopped chkdsk. I am very confused here. In January I had a problem with the drive in that all the partitions appeared empty. I used some recovery software and it found 99% of the files. This problem I had attributed to the 1394 interface I was using [soundblaster audigy] and that the drive had nothing to do with it. I switched to usb 2.0 interface which I am currently using - not ideal given the slightly higher cpu usage when recording. But is has been relatively stable since then. Is this drive recoverable? Can the "my music" folder be opened? I tried data recovery software on the drive and it hung whilst trying to analyse the folder structure. I am guessing that the long delays and hangs are due to windows trying (in vain) to communicate with the drive but then again I'm no computer whiz so it could be due to the phase of the moon or the humidity in Bhutan. So I/O error on a 50Gb folder in a 100Gb partition when the rest of the drive seems to be fine(ish). 35 or so bad sectors. A