Maxtor External Drive not recognized

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Sally

Maxtor One Touch 111 Firewire 400/USB 300 GB Portable Drive.
Vista Premium OS
USB 2

How do I get my drive to be recognized? Yellow exclamation mark in Device
Manager with error message "This device cannot start. (Code 10)".

My Maxtor Drive worked flawlessly under XP.
 
Wow. That's a broad statement. You can boot Windows XP, Linux and MacOSX
from compatible Firewire drives with the proper BIOS support. Booting from
USB is even easier. The truth is, you can't boot from removable storage in
Vista just too keep the DRM-holders happy. If you could boot from a giant
external HDD you could make their media portable -- bring it to a friend's
house for a private showing of media that was licensed for your use only.
This is purely a business decision on the part of Microsoft to convince
media companies that they can be like Apple an be trusted as a digital media
delivery platform.

Sally

You cannot boot to Vista or any other OS from an external Hard Drive
 
Sally said:
Maxtor One Touch 111 Firewire 400/USB 300 GB Portable Drive.
Vista Premium OS
USB 2

How do I get my drive to be recognized? Yellow exclamation mark in
Device Manager with error message "This device cannot start. (Code
10)".

My Maxtor Drive worked flawlessly under XP.
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Try uninstalling the drive from Device Manager and reboot. I run a 500GB
Maxtor USB drive with no problems so they do work. Mine isn't the One Touch
model but I doubt that would be the issue.
 
You couldn't boot Windows XP from an external USB drive either.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
That is not Windows XP. That is Windows XP PE.

Big difference.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Mike

And the statement stands. You cannot boot XP or Vista or W2K3 W2K W98 etc from an external Hard Drive media.
 
Sally did you ever find a solution to your problem? I have a USB Maxtor
External Storage and just tried to use it on my new Vista with the same
results as you state. If you have a solution, I'd like to see it.

Thanks,
Bud
 
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