Maxtor network drive not seen by W10.

Question

_{Monday, February 6, 2017 4:21 PM}

I have a fairly old Maxtor MSS-033606 network drive that I used to use. I now have a W10 laptop with windows security software. I have connected the drive to my wireless network router but it is not seen by my laptop. I have connected the drive directly tomy laptop using a network crossover cable but it is still not seen by explorer. I have run the supplied Maxtor software which should be able to find the drive across the network but again that cannot see the drive, although this is the original drive software that was pre W10.  When I connect the drive using the crossover cable the drives Ethernet indicator light flashes occasionally so I believe that the cable and network ports are ok.

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_{Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2:55 AM}

Hi Eric,

Yes, your cable and network ports should be fine, but we need to notice one point: this Maxtor MSS-033606 network drive is too old to use, I even can’t find this type in Google search.

On Maxtor official website I notice that Maxtor Shared Storage Update only for Windows 2000 and XP, which are very old version of Windows, used in ten years ago.

Therefore, your Maxtor network is incompatible with Windows 10 system, if you want to use it, I am afraid that you need to degrade to previous Windows version or contact Maxtor support.

Regards

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_{Monday, December 9, 2019 10:12 PM}

I did have as well a very old Maxtor Shared Storage Drive. Firmware 2.6.2. I did use it together with an old Windows/XP PC. As I am now throwing away old stuff, I did try to get it running again to see whether there was still some usable data on.

I was able to access it from a Windows 10 PC. In order to do so I had to switch on (control panel/software/windows software) the SMB1.0/CIFS Client Software. I was warned that switching this SMB1.0 software on was giving security risks.

After switching it on I then could access the drive via a shared drive, I did take care that there was no valuable data anymore at the drive, switched off the SMB1.0/CIFS Client, switched off the drive and decided to throw it away.

But my conclusion was that it is possible to access it via windows 10, but it is a risk. So the below answer that it is too old is in my view a correct one.