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The smart control inside the hard drives is to let you know that a drive is about to fail. If you restart your computer and bring up the BIOS you should be able to shut off the SMART warnings. That wont fix your drive, but at least you wont be bothered ...
I would copy the info off that drive asap and save it. SMART is not always right, but its right most of the time and problems will come.
on the hard drive you originally had installed you should have your pins settings to master and on the second drive you installed you should have it set to slave. I am assuming you know how to install it as a secondary drive so your system sees it if it still dose not work with the proper drive settings pleas post again with all your settings and OS specks and we will get back to you as soon as possible with a solution.
Here are a few things to try. If you have access to a secondary PC or laptop, try connecting your drive to it using a different USB cable. Also try unplugging your drive from the power outlet for a few seconds and then connecting it again. If it?s still not being recognized, Maxtor has a free utility called PowerMax (available at www.maxtor.com) that lets you run various tests on your drive till it identifies the problem. Good luck!
SATA drives are jumperless -- each drive has its own cable to the motherboard or controller -- so there's no setting on the drive to say "primary" or "secondary" as there was with IDE.
The connection on the controller or the motherboard will determine which drives are primary and which are secondary.
setup the first drive as slave ( sometimes No Jumper ) then the furthest away drive as Master.
If this fails, and you have 2 IDE Slots on the motherboard. ( Primary/Secondary ) Put 1 drive on primary as Slave. And DVD Rom As Master ( same Cable ) Then put second drive On Secondary IDE Slot. ( Set As Master Or Slave )
If none of these solutions Work For you, check to see if Both Channels are activated in the Bios.
If your talking about the number of pins and the power plug, yes! Don't forget to set the device order the same as your old one,master primary master slave/ secondary master/ secondary slave.
- Do you hear any beep sound when you plug in the USB drive into the laptop?
- You can also try a different USB cable
- Try connecting the hard drive to a different computer and see if it works
All those steps will help you determine where the issue is.
Please revert back with any other observations.
Good Luck
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