I have a WD 2TB external USB 3.0 that had a problem with the power adapter. I figured out that it was the power by borrowing a power adapter from someone. I then opened the external and removed the Caviar Green HDD and put it into another HDD enclosure.
The new enclosure powers on, but the drive is not detected by Windows XP, nothing happens when I plug the USB in. I put it back into the original enclosure, and the same thing happens, it is not detected by Windows. The enclosure lights up and the drive makes some noise.
What could have happened by changing enclosures? I didn’t drop it or use excessive force, I just pried the enclosure open with a credit card and gently swapped the drive from one SATA connector to another. Do I have to do anything else for the drive to work, or should it be just plug and play?
It seems to be clicking. I got it to spin up yesterday (appeared in the USB tray icon), but Windows still wouldn’t recognize it as a hard drive. Is it possible to use check disk if the HDD doesn’t show up as a lettered drive?
Yeah, I voided the warranty, but since I had personal info on the drive, I’d never send it in anyway. Ah well.
It will be doing click click then pause constantly (click of death, it may not be that type of click order but it will be constantly doing same sequence over and over ) the disk mite of been moved when it was on or dropped when on or the auto head park mite of killed it… Best to do it under xp or Linux or 7 or vista install disk in command prompt … (doing this on my phone so can’t use rich text as its been implement badly on thus forum it ignores next lines )
