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Hi,<br />
If I right click and initialize the drive, it will delete all my data.<br />
Joe
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Hi,
If I right click and initialize the drive, it will delete all my data.
Joe

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Hi,<br />
I cannot access Maxtor Shared Storage Drive data because I lost the password. &nbsp;Took drive out of case and connected to another pc as slave. &nbsp;Still cannot access because now the drive reads as &quot;not initialized&quot;. &nbsp;Please advise.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Joe
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Hi,
I cannot access Maxtor Shared Storage Drive data because I lost the password.  Took drive out of case and connected to another pc as slave.  Still cannot access because now the drive reads as "not initialized".  Please advise.

Thanks,
Joe

Cannot access Maxtor Shared Storage Drive data

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.