Rescued hard drive as slave

[mintjulep]

I had an external USB drive that stopped working.

I am assuming that the drive itself is probably fine, and the failure is with the electronics associated to USBify it.

So, following that assumption, I took the USB drive apart, and took out the WD drive from within.

I tried to install said drive as a slave drive direct. Jumper is correct for slave.

When installed, my computer won't see EITHER drive.

Thoughts?

 

[Freestone]

Did you check the original (good) drive for Master jumpering? Have you tried Cable Select on both drives? What happens if the suspect drive is installed by itself on the IDE cable?

 

[mintjulep]

Have tried both master and cable select on the "master" drive with the same results.

I have not tried the suspect drive by itself, but as there is no OS installed on it I suspect nothing of interest will happen.

 

[G0AOZ]

The point about trying it on its own is that you eliminate any possible master/slave conflicts.

Ok, so it won't boot, but if the drive is working the BIOS will find it. Can you feel or hear if that drive is spinning?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[wheelyjoe]

goto bios, goto ide config, set to auto for slave drv.

 

[BadBigBen]

When installed, my computer won't see EITHER drive.

that drive is toast, if you have set all jumpers correctly...

to verify this, try it on the secondary IDE channel, where the DVD/CDROM usually sits with no other drive attached... if it does not get recognized, then it is time to bin it and get a replacement for the USB enclosure...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."