this drive is pulled from a simpletech enclosure and plugged in direct to computer as secondary drive.
symptoms: intermittent viability in windows device manager and bios, but will sometimes completely lock up windows (xp) no rattling, powers and spins up, no clicking.
I read in another post that problem is sometimes only a shorted TVS diode, but i don't know how to test for that. I do have a cheap meter, and soldering iron, if someone can get me in the right direction.
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