I have a DiamondMax 3.5" PLUS 8 hard drive which is connected as a slave to my pc when I turn the PC on the (dead hard drive) spins up and you can feel it vibrating but windows does not see it, the jumper is set to slave.
What info on the sticker on the HD do i need to match to get a donar drive to borrow its PCB to get the data off my drive?
Depending on your PC make model and BIOS it may not auto recognize the second drive, check those settings. and or it might not support the drive size, in which case look for a BIOS update for your system. You also might want to use "cable select" on the switches even though you set it to slave it may not like that.
What would be a good test then is to see if it can slave another HD if you have one. Or:
1) place this into a friends PPC and see if you get the same results.
2) If you have an external USB HD case try it there.
As it sounds like you are trying to retrieve data only correct?
And what do you mean by this:
"What info on the sticker on the HD do i need to match to get a donar drive to borrow its PCB to get the data off my drive?"
Are you thinking of pulling the PCB?
Well unless you are that good.. lol I wouldn't try that without at least trying it in someone elses system.
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my bios can see a 500GB hard drive no problem
I have the hard drive currently sitting in an IDE to usb 3.5" Caddy
Yes I want to get another Maxtor drive the same as the 1 i have so i can borrow the PCB off the drive that works and put it on the drive i have that is having issues and see if my system can then see it
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