I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me. I tried using the hard drive on a desktop computer with the same results. Within the folders that worked correctly directories would again be correct, but when i tried to copy their files to my laptop nothing happened. 282 subscribers Subscribe 8.8K views 11 years ago This video demonstrates how to open a Maxtor 5000 XT external hard drive enclosure case. Some folders were listed as 'empty' and when i clicked on them the error message 'The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable' popped up. I could open the drive and all of the primary folders were present but only certain folders were actually functioning. It even recognized that 165/279 GB were being used. After unplugging/rebooting/etc a few times the drive was correctly recognized as the E: Drive. I did not format the drive to prevent data loss. The drive would appear in the 'My computer' section of my laptop but the drive was labeled 'RAW' and when i clicked on it I was given the message that it needed to be formatted before it could be used. Today it stopped recognizing data within the hard drive. I own a Maxtor 3200 external hard drive which has worked well until recently.
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