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Finally sorted out this Link problem. Readers may recall that when I put the old laptop HD into an external enclosure, Device Manager could see it but Windows could not thus preventing me from accessing any data or even formatting the drive. This was the reason – when the old HD was in the...

I ran the Maxtor Powermax program - Advanced test and the "Burn in test". The drive passed both tests. I am tending to agree that what I need to do now is to connect it to a desktop as suggested. Unfortunately, I am "in between" homes without access to a desktop and will be so for several...

BadBigBen, I have not had the opportunity to try the drive in another laptop and having read Vacunita's posting above I am reluctant to throw good money after bad.......

Thanks DrB0b, Re the last paragraph, I tried all the USB cords I had but all produced the same result. Both drives required 5V, 800mA. I will have a go with the boot disk when I return from holiday.

Thanks KJV - I will try it out.

Fred, The hard drive is a laptop drive and there are no jumpers to be seen. Yesterday, I did reinstall it in the laptop, deleted the partition, created a new one, formatted it and successfully reinstalled W XP so I assume that the drive is OK at least.

Carl, Thank you. I ran it and it passed - I recall the result was 0X00 (or similar).

Badbigben, Thanks for the suggestion but "autonuking" it did not solve the problem...........

Thanks for the answers. I have tried the enclosure with drive in another laptop with the same result. I will not be able to test it in a desktop for some time. I have tried it in all 4 ports without success. The enclosure has two power leads but even with both connected the drive is not...

I was so pleased with the performance of my 80Gb Hitachi Travelstar hard drive in my laptop that when it filled up I purchased a 500GB version. I put the 500 GB drive into a USB enclosure and copied the image from the 80GB drive to the 500GB drive. I then swopped drives. The 500GB drive...