Maxtor Basics problem.

Nolppo

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Maxtor Basics 1.5 TB problem. I'm running on Vista 64bit. Couple days ago I was defragmenting my external HD with a new version of O&O defrag, and decided to leave it defragmenting on the background and start playing. I played about a minute and phoof! bluescreen... So I just waited it to restart. When it did, I tried to access my external HD and Windows just said it was corrupted or is not accessible - access denied (can't remember which one). So I tried checking for errors and defragmenting with windows and O&O, but nothing. I went to Disk Management and it said that it only had 433GBs of space all together.

Now, couple days later My Computer won't even show it. In Disk Management it says it has 1397,26GBs of Unallocated space (that's the exact amount it used to have). I just put it back online because it had gone offline, but still nothing. I could do a "New simple volume" in Disk Management into it. So does that mean that it has formatted itself? And now I just have to make a new partition into it and hope I can restore some of the 1.3 TBs of kinda important files? I really really really don't want to loose any files.

Thanks already and I hope you can understand my descriptions :D
 

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