When I read the comment about the PS I dug up an old power supply I had from an old Thinkpad. Just for the heck of it I tried a final Google on the HD, and came across this site. I had even taken the unit apart just to see what the 'guts' looked like! I figured it was a lost cause, since when powered on I also heard a very faint 'ticking' sound. I had gone through all the troubleshooting effort suggested by Device Manager, along with some digging on my own, and was convinced my HD probably was damaged from being knocked off a shelf by my lovely cats. I've a happy girl!! My thanks to 'WRXGuy02', and his input about the power supply.

Most important was the bit about the power cord supplying enough power for the little green light but not to spin the drive. You saved me from paying out big bucks to purchase new external drive and have Geek Squad transfer files to new hard drive. My iTunes backup and pictures are all accessible again. Got a new power cord and all is wonderful with life again. My green light was working but neither computer would recognize the drive. Does anyone have any clues?ДЄny info would be much appreciated. The light on the drive is on so I think the hardware is fine, but.I have no idea how this could have happened. Upon restarting, the PS3200 is now no longer visible anywhere-I went to add hardware, I've plugged and replugged everything, it's just not there. I then stopped backing up for awhile to attend to other stuff then had to restart the computer for a different reason. I copied about 7 GB worth of data (I'm backing up in advance of a drive reformat). Hello, So I installed my Maxtor PS 3200 external drive this afternoon without any problem-you basically just plug in the USB and XP recognizes instantly.

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