labtech wrote:
Ok, high chance of hardware failure. Which kind? Not 100% sure as more advanced tests are necessary to rule out problems.
What is the history on this drive?
Why do you think it is no longer working? Or what do you think caused the failure?
well my drive had couple of bad sectors but I managed to partition my drive so that the bad sectors are unformated and as a result not being used.drive worked fine,I used it as backup with the help of my IDE to USB cable.
I think the main reason that it's not working is because I connected it wrongly.For IDE drive to work I guess each pin from 1 to 40 should be connected to the same pin on laptop,but I connected it in reverse ,meaning I connected laptops hard power to hard drives data pins.
when I connect this drive with IDE to usb cable widows don't even find out something is connected,considering this and the fact that it's motor works fine,I think problem is not mechanical,maybe its related to firmware or something that runs before firmware.
SAjunky wrote:
Did you connect external power (both 5V and 12V) to the hard drive? If not, laptop supply only 5V power, so no wonder 3.5" hard drive won't work.
+1 to labtech:
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Why do you think it is no longer working?
Connect it to PC and see it is damaged or still working.
For IDE to USB cable I have an external power supply,but what I did was,I wanted my hard to work instead of laptop's hard so I had to power my 3.5" hard with laptop's 2.5" hard power supply witch is pins 40 to 44.but instead of connecting these pins to power socket of hard drive,I connected it to IDE (most likely data pins).
After I did this and it didn't work I connected my drive with IDE to USB cable,to find out if my drive got damaged or not,witch I found out it doesn't work.