Maxtor One touch 111 problems

[Khevcomm]

My Maxtor One touch 111 is about 16 months old, worked perfectly yesterday, but today its lights up, gets warm but is not recognised by any computer... i use Macs but tried it on PCs as well.. same problem.
Spoke to Tech support ...they took the easy option and reckon it's dead ( probably because it's out of warranty)
Anyone had the same experience or managed to solve the problem of how to extract the data?

 

[tinetine]

F*ck this Maxtor drive. its useless i had this problem over and over again

 

[Jonmor68]

Try removing it from it's case and connecting it internally, you have nothing to loose at this stage.
I hear about so many of these Maxtor's and Iomega drives failing, I wonder if it's the case's internal connection that is the problem.
I have 3 Welland cases, (the ones you buy seperate and add own drive to) 1 is over 3 years old 1 about 2 years and 1 I got about 6 months ago, all USB & eSATA connections, plus a WD 500 USB & Seagate 250 USB, and never had a day's trouble with any of them. The USB only ones are about 15 months old.