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posted by mervman on Jan 03, 2008


Hi, I had an ibm travelstar external hard drive. The machine will fail to boot but the USB drive was recognised. No sound will be heard from the drive - not even the sound of platter rotation, the drive will appear to be dead. pls help thank you
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Posted by apolo11 on Feb 13, 2008

Hi, I had an ibm travelstar external hard drive. The machine will fail to boot but the USB drive was recognised. No sound will be heard from the drive - not even the sound of platter rotation, the drive will appear to be dead. pls help thank you

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does the drive use usb?
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