Hey,

I'm new here and don't know a great lot about Hard Drives as I've never had any problems with them.

I recently bought a new PC as I was having great trouble with my old one and decided it was time for a new start.

I have placed one of my old hard drives (D:) in an external case to transfer some data, which worked fine, but I can't seem to do the same with my old C: Drive.

The drive spins but the light on the case doesn't come on, and Windows does not detect the drive.

The differences between the two that I am aware of are just that C: has Windows installed. Both have no jumpers in.

C: has been tried in the external case set as master or slave, both to no avail.


Any help would be appreciated. In a desperate situation to recover work !

Many thanks,
Callum.

Take the drive out of the case and detect it in normal IDE port of your motherboard and post the situation here .