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Setup cannot acces this disk

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The hardware that you are trying to access is damaged or failing.


The device drivers for the hardware are faulty or incompatible.


There is a connection problem such as a bad cable


click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll through all of your devices

if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark ? ! or a red X you will need to update the drivers for this device right click select update driver/reinstall driver


if you can see your usb device but its not working scroll to Ports(Com&Ltd) right click to update driver

if you computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it



One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle to shutdown or fail to detect a hard drive


Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions IDE,SATA


the leads from your MOTHERBOARD TO THE HARD DRIVE make sure they have a

secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty if its a flat 40pin ide

this will be the first to fail


make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions


or just replace them they could be faulty a computer needs power and data to travel through every working device and continue its cycle and have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error

hope this helps

  • Anonymous Jun 20, 2012

    Do you actually read what you are pasting? Cause I'm not sure how he's supposed to do any of this part that you wrote if he can't even access the drive during setup:

    "click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll through all of your devices
    if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark ? ! or a red X you will need to update the drivers for this device right click select update driver/reinstall driver
    if you can see your usb device but its not working scroll to Ports(Com&Ltd) right click to update driver
    if you computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it"

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    Brian Sullivan Jun 20, 2012

    restart your computer repeatedly tapping the f8 key to enter safe mode while the screen is black once in safe mode where the only things working will be your keyboard and mouse allowing you to attempt to repair your computer

    you could select the option start at last known configuration that worked this will tell you if and what file has been corrupted or missing then you will know if its a hardware issue

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Do you have the jumpers set correctly for your setup? Check it against the diagrams on this pdf:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/manuals/idehdsettings/Maxtor72.pdf

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