cannot delete files from external hard drive

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by juan11385, Jan 26, 2006.

  1. juan11385

    juan11385 Private E-2

    I have a Dell gx 240 cpu running windows xp pro 40GB hard drive and 512 memory. When I try to delete certain folders from my Maxtor external hard drive I'm getting an error message that I cannot delete because of an I/O device error.
    Is there a way of getting around that. I tried to do a system restore also and I'm getting a message that the system cannot restore. I can't even open my valuable pictures that I stored there.
     
  2. brownizs

    brownizs MajorGeek

    Is it USB or Firewire? Can you hook to another computer and access the drive okay?
     
  3. juan11385

    juan11385 Private E-2

    I have it on USB and I will try now to hook up to my wife;s computer.
    Thanks for responding
     

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