I have a maxtor 80gb drive that was initially an external drive, probably from the one touch series but I'm not certain. I lost the power cable to the enclosure so I decided to pull the drive from the enclosure and just plug it in as an internal IDE drive.
I've now tried on 2 separate computers, but whenever the drive is plugged in, neither computer will boot, the CPU fan won't spin up or anything. Unplug the drive and they'll boot up like everything is normal.
Looking at the drive I see one pin has been perma-jumpered from the factory in the area where you put the jumper for Slave or Master. I'm wondering if this is what's causing the issue trying to run the drive as an internal drive?
If I bought an IDE to SATA adapter cable, would that bypass the jumper assignment that IDE recognizes?
It's possible that the drive is just dead, as well, but I'm not really convinced of that, as the drive was working fine up until the day I lost the power cable for the enclosure. The drive has been just sitting on my desk ever since, unused.
There isn't any super important data on the drive, so if I'm SOL, than so be it.
Thanks for any help, all.
I've now tried on 2 separate computers, but whenever the drive is plugged in, neither computer will boot, the CPU fan won't spin up or anything. Unplug the drive and they'll boot up like everything is normal.
Looking at the drive I see one pin has been perma-jumpered from the factory in the area where you put the jumper for Slave or Master. I'm wondering if this is what's causing the issue trying to run the drive as an internal drive?
If I bought an IDE to SATA adapter cable, would that bypass the jumper assignment that IDE recognizes?
It's possible that the drive is just dead, as well, but I'm not really convinced of that, as the drive was working fine up until the day I lost the power cable for the enclosure. The drive has been just sitting on my desk ever since, unused.
There isn't any super important data on the drive, so if I'm SOL, than so be it.
Thanks for any help, all.