Two errors with my Maxtor 160 GB external hard drive

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Nancy Everds

Hi--

I bought the Maxtor 160 GB external hard drive a few months ago. I
have a Dell Dimenssion running Windows MD.

I put photos on the Maxtor drive almost exclusively. All of a sudden,
I started getting error messages when I tried to copy things from
flash cards to this drive (D). Mostly I got: The Disk in Drive D is
not formatted. Do you want to format it now? But when I looked with
Explorer, all the files were there, I just couldn't put anything
there. It used to go away sometimes when I'd turn off the PC, but now
it's always there.

Also, after the first message, I'd get a message something like:
Unable to write to Disk D. Files may be lost. After that message,
the screen would turn into tons of dots on a dark background (like the
beginning of a game of battleship), and then the PC would freeze up.

Any help would be appreciated!
 
Hi--

I bought the Maxtor 160 GB external hard drive a few months ago. I
have a Dell Dimenssion running Windows MD.

I put photos on the Maxtor drive almost exclusively. All of a sudden,
I started getting error messages when I tried to copy things from
flash cards to this drive (D). Mostly I got: The Disk in Drive D is
not formatted. Do you want to format it now? But when I looked with
Explorer, all the files were there, I just couldn't put anything
there. It used to go away sometimes when I'd turn off the PC, but now
it's always there.

Also, after the first message, I'd get a message something like:
Unable to write to Disk D. Files may be lost. After that message,
the screen would turn into tons of dots on a dark background (like the
beginning of a game of battleship), and then the PC would freeze up.

Any help would be appreciated!
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Did this start happening after you stored 137gb or more on the drive?
 
I don't think I have very much on the drive at all (certainly not near
137 GB, probably only about 1/20th full). Now when I look with
Windows explorer, it says that the drive is completely full, and says:
used space 0 kb, free space 0 kb, and the picture is all blue (the
picture of the drive).
 
I would reformat it, then try copying a bunch of files from c: over to
it to see if it happens again
 
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