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Just wanted to make sure this is drive failure and not operator error (ie me). Got the above drive in that looks like its a standard LIF connection. Cannot get this drive live PC-3000. Is it a standard LIF (see image). Its from a Sony VAIO SVZ1311AFXX.

That's two SATA drives in a RAID configuration. You just need to treat them as separate drives. If the SATA Tx/Rx pins are not obvious to you, there is a thread in this forum that explains how to make your own cables.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18418

Hopefully your "standard" LIF cable didn't apply power to the wrong pins, otherwise you may have killed both drives.

Thanks Fzabkar. Reading that post it looks like several people have made the same mistake.