Its not that I'm not happy with mine, I just found a better deal on one with more memory (same make) so I purchased that one and will be returning the maxtor hardrive to the store I bought it from. Thing is this hardrive already has all my stuff stored on it and I don't know how to erase it. Any ideas? Thanks!
Try a secure formating program that unrecoverably deletes the data. Here is a free example. http://www.download.com/Active-Kill-Disk-Hard-Drive-Eraser/3000-2092_4-10188745.html?tag=lst-2