Simpletech 500 GB external hard drive - unresponsive

Did you try looking on the internet ? Usually the manufacturer has free manuals downloads

Windows 7 does not recognize SimpleTech 250GB external USB drive ...

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Just bought a new computer, running Win 7. Drive worked fine on Win XP. ... Windows 7 does not recognize SimpleTech 250GB external USB drive ... I find it hard to believe that a external USB 2.0 drive can't work with Win 7. There must be ...

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Sorry, but that sounds pretty bad. Generally when a hard drive bricks, its done. However you can try taking it in somewhere like the Geek Squad at Best Buy, and have them try and recover all your stored data from it. Good Luck!

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I had the exact same problem. Solved by removing Simpletech drive from the 'flashy-box'. Unplugged drive from internals and threw the 'Pinnaferrina' case away and installed it on my motherboards extra sata plugin site (if it has one). If you open your computer case it should be labled on the Motherboeard as such. Mine has four. On the first attempt when I started the computer i Had no OS system showing on first boot-up. Shut off computer and power and shifted SATA (RED Cable) to another Sata plug on Motherboard and it booted right up and I had the drive back. You will need a longer Sata cable than the attached to the Simpletech drive and a power cable that matches the one on the Simletech . Forget looking for the drivers on the net and the Simpletech web site was no use.

I got one with the same problem. I opened up the case and hooked up the hard drive to a generic usb to sata adapter that i picked up on ebay and it works fine now if a bit clunky looking.

Maybe some bad sector in there. You should do a disk scan to check that.

I managed to fix it by unplugging the harddrive from the main electrical power source.

One thing to remember is the some of the Simple drives requires the USB mini to conect to the drive and the TWO USB connects to be plugin to the computer.