Can anyone help?

[starrylizard]

Yet another way my computer is trying to screw me over. :(

Tonight my computer is not reading the stuff on my external hard drive. Like, at first I thought it had reformatted it and I was all "nooooooo!" But then I realised the properties still tell me Free space: 556Gb, Total size: 931Gb which means the information is still there, but my computer is only bringing up a blank.

I tried restarting several times and plugging it back in, which usually fixes issues with hard drives for my compy, but it's not working this time. :(

help... *squeak*

All my media files, not to mention that was the back up for my stupid hard drive of fail. :(

EDIT: Freaking a bit... Seems everyone has this problem... O_O

Comments

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

It's just the last thing I needed tonight. *head desk* The Maxtor site has all these help topics, but they're pretty unhelpful and it looks like the company has been bought out by SeaGate. I'm looking for forums as I type. I've decided to buy a new computer. I'm so sick of this crap. I don't know if this is my computer's fault or the hard drive itself, but it's pretty typical atm. [/rant]

Thank you for your icon. It has brought me much needed lolz. *pets Adama*

[hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com]

Well the other thing I can suggest is if you can take it somewhere and try plugging it into another computer. Not just your dad's as it has issues with USB. Or if you find a help number on the site, try talking to a human.

Baltar agrees that the situation sucks. :(

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

So far I have mostly found sites where people tell you not to buy Maxtor and rant about their customer service/help being non-existent. I also just found a forum witha bunch of people asking for help with basically exactly what just happened to mine... so this is looking bad.

Lizzie is not happy. :(

Dr Sandstrom expresses my current feelings on the situation.

I'll maybe see if someone else has a computer that might run it. Maybe one of the IT ladies at work can help me. *sigh*

[hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com]

Good luck, man! :/

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *hugs*