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[Deerhunter]

How about one of you experts telling me how to find a driver for my new 40 gig maxtor. It says it will automatically find the driver. But it asks for my Windows ME disk. When I put it in it scans it and says it can't find the driver. I tried to download one from Maxtor but couldn't find any driver list.
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[Markeau]

Did you try a Windows Update?  Just a thought.  I've had good luck talking to Maxtor's tech support team, just give em a call.

[Cephlen]

Are you sure its Maxtor and not your IDE interface?  Hard drives dont require drivers....  Does both your bios and IDE chip support HD's 40 gigs in size?

[Markeau]

It's not an IDE drive but rather a USB (see subject) drive.  When I installed a Maxtor DV3000 on both 98SE and XP a Windows Update found and installed some updates and removable drive drivers.  (Granted the DV3000 is a 1394 drive which is different than the 3000LE USB  drive but I would assume that they might use similar drivers - especially like the "Safely Remove Hardware" one that gets installed to the System Tray that you must select before disconnecting the USB or 1394 drive).

[Deerhunter]

Well I got it to work. Went to Maxtor site and downloaded a driver for win 98se. Then I installed the usb 2.0 card that went with it. finally go that working with a little trouble.

But the bigger aggravation is I can't start or restart my computer with anything plugged into the usb 2.0 card. When ever I shut down I have to unplug everything from the card or my computer will post an error on the next restart or go to safe mode. After I boot up I can plug in my maxtor hard drive, my usb scanner and cdwrite drive and they work fine. Any suggestions.

[Markeau]

Did you do a windows update?