My external HD (Maxtor Onetouch 200G) disappeared from view on my PC recently (no drive letter visible). Turns out the HDD inside this unit is one that is often an OEM internal drive - Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 (6Y200PO). So I removed the internal drive unit, installed it my PC, to see if it was the external circuitry that was the issue.
It installed fine (ok in Device management). So now I can see the drive in Disk Management, (Drive 1 - unallocated), but it pops up the "Convert Drive Wizard" when I open disk management.
If I go ahead to "initialize", what happens? Will it make the data on the drive inaccessible? The whole point here is to save the 100G of data that was on the drive before it went silent on me....
mikeathome
XP Media Center '02 - SP2
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