its not a firmware issue as I have the barracuda 7200.12 not 11.
I checked.

But I came back tonight and I think the wrong connector has been plugged in, so no life and no little blue light.
I presume that the internal pcb has surge protection before the HDD..?

So can I buy one of those SATA drive power converters and run the HDD to my lappy therefore bypassing the little pcb?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-SATA-I...ht_3420wt_1137

Gutted as it has the family photos on it and I only asked her to fire it up so I could backup to DVDs.

please help

 

H m8 try plug this HDD to PC(no via USB,but via SATA),if its working in PC that be worked in external USB closure or USB docking station,which my friend use and its simple and cheap
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/221365...edium=products
or Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3.5%22-2.5%22-...5241b2fe69ef08

 

Hi Andy,

if its a standard SATA drive, drop it out of the unit, and get someone who has a SATA pc to plug the puppy in. if its fine, then just buy a new drive, and get them to ghost the drive

its going some to get the power pins connected wrongly

floppy drives, possible.

HDD etc unlikely




Mart

 

hi mart can you pm me your number over please buddy?

 

oh and thanks for the advice guys, all is not lost yet