Hard drive replacement

YES..just be sure to use USB cord and its plug and play.

it has to know were it comming from can u copy paste your music to hard drive 1st then to firelite ok

1. the only way to know what breally has gone wrong is to open the enclosure & check. if the Ports has broken off fromm the PCB borad inside then ( if you are technically savvy) you can resolder it back. ( the disk has to be removed first) if not you have two option.

1. take a device to a repair shop.
2. buy a new enclosure & swap the disk

The other connector on the USB Firelite is for external power if needed. You will need to buy another 2.5" hard drive enclosure and pull the drive from the firelite and put it in the new one to get the files. Before you buy a new one open the firelite and take the drive with you to verify if it is an ide or sata drive. This will determine the type of enclosure you need. You could also take it to a local computer store and have them back the data up to dvd, but this can get expensive. You can typically get a new 2.5" ide enclosure for under twenty dollars.

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try to replace the USB cable and test the Hdd on an other computer system to make sure it is function and good luck

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Below is the link for the FireLite 160GB portable HD. Drivers are only needed for win98. 2000/xp/vista are plug and play. The manuals are included at this link.

http://www.verbatim.com/support/support.cfm?part_number=firelite+160gb+usb&x=56&y=11

Additionally, there could be a problem with power supply. A switch is on the back...USB or EXT. EXT is for an external supply. (http://www.verbatim.com/products/detail.cfm?product_id=38819801-1143-3415-5FE3682C49A8E37F&cat_id=3883B708-1143-3415-5FB9F3C74069A098) USB is naturally for a USB cable. Clicking might indicate low power when using USB. Switch to the external adapter or get a USB cable with two connectors for the computer (the extral cable draws more power),

good luck.

The only think that can be replaced is the whole had drive unit inside the plastic enclosure.

If you disassemble an hard drive unit on normal environment you have over 90% of chances to damage the disks, as hard drives are normally built in a special e pressurized environment (clean room).

Therefore , even if it is possible (providing that also control board is replaced) the 60Gb 'internal disks' with 120MB, it is not worth attempting the operation, as chance this is unsuccessful are too big, and such rebuilt hard drive won't be a reliable data support.

If instead you want just to replace the external USB enclosure, in that case the operation can be done with no problem, just find a 120 GB disk and replace the old 60GB.

Your trying to run your computer off the E drive? You have to completely reinstall the Operating System if you want to do that. I would put a lot of files from My Documents and your Desktop to the E drive. If you want to install programs on there, you have to first un-install them from your C drive and reinstall them on your E drive (there is an option to do that when installing the program. Just change the "C:\..." to "E:\...".

1)Run CHKDSK ON that disc
2)Run antivirus to scan disc