Lardman wrote:
NeedsPractice wrote:
Thank you for that TIP. I will try to get it directly to my computer and check the BIOS. If it does show up correctly which it has in windows before under disk management then it might not be the PCB Board. What would that mean? The drive froze?
Its not spinning at all, absolutely no sound. dead quiet.
Connect it directly and put your hand on it, you'll may feel it spinning better than you can hear it.
If nothing shows in the bios and you can't feel anything spinning check the diodes and voltages on the PCB. If it is in the bios and is the correct size then you need to look at cloning/imaging the drive ASAP.
Okay, I finally connected the bad drive directly to my motherboard to see if I could see it in my BIOS. Nothing. Can't see a thing. I connected one of the good drives and I could see it perfectly in my BIOS including the size of the partition. So how I can see this bad drive in Windows under Disk Management connected via a usb controller but I can't see it in my BIOS. When it is connected in Windows I can't do anything with it because it wont initialize, but something is connected. Oh wait a minute, I think windows is seeing the USB Controller and the USB Controller is telling windows something is here, however, when windows goes to access the drive through the controller there is no response. Honestly, what I am thinking is that this bad drive is getting zero power. I mean when I hooked up the good drive it immediately powered up and you could hear everything working, spinning, etc. When I hook up the bad drive, absolutely nothing happens, as if the drive never turned on. I think all the confusion is the USB Controller that was enclosed in the External Case is what is causing all of these confusion problems. If I connect the bad drive to the motherboard directly, zero, zilch, nothing. I don't feel anything, no spin, no clunking, not even it attempting to turn on.
What does this mean? Possible bad PCB Board? Or the Drive more than like Seized? I would think that if the drive seized you would hear it power up some and try to do this and that. I am more incline to think the PCB is dead and nothing power/information/commands are even getting to the hard drive.
What do you think?