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Maxtor External 120gb showing 2 drives

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ByteGaza

Technical User
Sep 19, 2003
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NZ
I have just installed a 120gb Maxtor One Touch USB2.0 external drive in a Windows 98se and it shows up an error saying there are two drives named the same!

For some reason it shows that I have 2 units and names them both the same. I tried renaming but this only lasts until the next boot.

It is using Dantz Retrospect 6 and I like everything about this concept but this error is driving me mad.
 
Look for updated drivers for the USB unit.
Are you using a USB 2.0 card or does your motherboard have USB 2 built in or are you using this unit with USB 1.1?
If you are using a PCI card get updated drivers for that.
Make sure that the card is actually compatable with the drive unit.
I used a PCI USB 2.0 card with a Canon scanner & found that this caused all sorts of problems. It turned out that the card wasn't compatable with the scanner.
 
It is off the motherboard and is an Albatron kx400 Motherboard which is USB2.0 compliant. I am sure this is ok in any case the drive is backward compatible to 1.1

I looked in the manual from maxtor and see pic of it showing 2 drives but with different names.

When i sold this unit my customer thought it was fantastic but if it keeps coming up with this error......
 
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