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Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 and Vista / 7 (SOLVED)!

August 23rd, 2009

I was trying to help somebody getting their Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 device working on Windows 7. It is an 100GB external USB hard drive.

After looking all over the Internet, I came across a post which mentioned it was a problem with the external hard drive not working with USB 2.0 ports. Since the person I was trying to help didn’t have a USB 1.1 hub to connect the external hard drive to, I mentioned that they should connect it to the USB hub on their Dell monitor, and then connect the Dell monitor to the computer via USB. And it worked!

Maxtor 3100 problem with Vista Home

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3 Responses to “Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 and Vista / 7 (SOLVED)!”
  1. Angela
    September 13th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
     

    I am having the same exact problem. This 3100 is not coming up in my computer. It is working fine, I just can’t open it and save documents to it. I have a dell laptop that is running vista and all my usb hubs are 2.0 Please help!!!!!!!!

  2. Joe
    September 22nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
     

    The solution provided above was absolutely tremendous! It worked like a charm in two seconds flat. Thanks!

  3. VA
    October 5th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
     

    I am having the same exact problem. This 3100 is not coming up in my computer. It is working fine, I just can’t open it and save documents to it. I have a dell laptop that is running vista and all my usb hubs are 2.0 Please help!!!!!!!!

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