If you happen to have a Maxtor One Touch that is going or has seemingly gone bad, don’t fear.  Your data is most likely safe.  It’s just that something has gone wrong with the controller card in the unit.  For a few months my One Touch was hit or miss (probably 1 out of 5 times it would actually work).  Finally I got tired of it and cracked open the case.  I disconnected the Sata drive from the card and connected it to the Sata controller on my motherboard.  After I booted up my machine and opened explorer, I was able to drill down into the drive and see all my data!