Office Maxtor storage device suddenly stopped working.

Original title: Office Maxtor storage device

My Maxtor storage device suddenly stopped working?  Any help please.

It works on another PC?

Is there traces of yellow warning in Device Manager?

Use the SeaTools utility check disk

http://www.Seagate.com/support/downloads/SeaTools/

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