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Average Customer Review
(17 customer reviews) 15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Easy to use, easy to abuse,
February 16, 2007 Elizabeth Perry "onesize" (Milton MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 160 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
I bought this to back up my hard drive to with the idea that I would reinstall windows on the hard drive and then restore from the maxtor.
***The install of the maxtor and the backup went seamlessly. It was like it had always been there. No complaints with the product****
The complaint is with me:
BEWARE if you plan to do a new install of windows to DISCONNECT THE MAXTOR before you start because people as stupid as myself delete the partition table on the maxtor inadvertently and have to pay $$ to get the data recovery afterwards - glad to pay it for what I got but not my best scenario. Someone else I know inadvertently selected the maxtor as the boot drive for windows install and now the computer brain is on the maxtor instead of in the regular place; also because someone forgot to disconnect the maxtor before the computer lobotomy commenced.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Storage Galore,
February 7, 2007 jkm3rd "Former Naval Person" (Florida East Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 160 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
If you are looking for an external storage hard drive that it apple pie-simple to place into operation (if you can plug in both ends of a USB cord and a power cord), and which runs quieter than a stealth submarine, this is your baby. So simple, elegant looking, and a boon to store those masses of photos, files, or other junque that is presently taking up valuable "C" hard drive space. Try it -- you'll like it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not a good product,
April 8, 2007 Jim Barlow "Jim" (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 160 GB External Hard Drive (Personal Computers)
I bought one and there is a problem with the USB interface. My Sony VIAO, with Windows XP Pro, complained that it was plugged into a slower USB 1.1 hub. It wasn't.
I tried on another computer, also running Windows XP Pro, and after it initially appeared to recognize the drive the computer failed to work with the drive or even recognize it when it was plugged in.
I guess I'm lucky. I can return it without any loss of data, since it never worked properly to start with.
