I got a used 300GB Maxtor external HD.Which stopped being recognized by XP as soon as I had transferred my entire music collection to it.
After doing some googling,turns out I'm just one of thousands with the exact same problem.Damn you Maxtor!
Adventurous pc repairman that I am,I tore it apart and removed the drive from it housing.Split the connector so I could hook half to the MB and the other too the power supply of its original case...hang the whole thing sloppily out the side and voila!...there were my songs!Plus its a serial ata.Now there are 4 HD's in my cheesy Emachines PC(well,mostly in

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