I'm having a problem with a firewire hard drive of mine. Whenever I try to access it, it wants to format the drive. When I say I don't want to it says the drive is unaccessable. Just a little history on what I think brought this on. A storm came through about 2 days ago and we had a power surge where the power went out for a second or two. The computer shut down and reset along with my firewire hard drives. Ever since then i've been unable to access the drive. I have 2 of these drives. The drive that is workin fine has had this problem before and i've been able to fix it by just turning the computer off and turning it back on but this time doing that isn't getting the other drive to work properly. I've also tried unplugging the drives and it had no effect when I plugged them back in. Both of my hard drives are Maxtor drives. One is an actual maxtor hard drive in a maxtor case while the other is a maxtor hard drive in another brand's case. I'm running Windows 2000 with all the latest updates. Any ideas?
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Firewire HD problem
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