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I've got an external Maxtor w/USB 2.
Works great, but here's a nightmare that happened to me. I bought the drive. It's plug & play, so I plugged it into my XP machine and went on with business for about 2 months. Drive was working great. Then...all of a sudden my computer would not see the drive. I uninstalled...checked everything...blah...blah and it still would not work. So, I called Maxtor and they said it was shipped FAT32 and I should have formatted it to NTFS before using it with XP. Maxtor top level support reconfirmed that FAT does not run stable with XP and ALL my data is lost.
I reformatted as NTFS and all has worked fine since.
Good luck!
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