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Hi there,
I just bought a new 500Gb Western Digital Blue Caviar hard-drive from the overclockers website, with intention to use it in an external eSata environment (using an IcyBox).
To cut a long story short, the hard-drive will not boot. Whether I connect to my desktop or my laptop via USB or eSata, the hard-drive will not trigger any response from the machine in question. Earlier today I opened up my main case and connected the hard-drive to my main motherboard power-supply and SATA cabling, swapping it for my main current primary drive. The drive was still not recognised-- even when I booted from my Vista install CD (DVD-RW drive) and then went through the Windows installation in an attempt to format the drive. The Windows set-up would only recognise my USB MyBook external drive .
I'm guessing that this hard-drive is just kaputt? Slightly frustrating considering it was broken-upon-delivery...
I just bought a new 500Gb Western Digital Blue Caviar hard-drive from the overclockers website, with intention to use it in an external eSata environment (using an IcyBox).
To cut a long story short, the hard-drive will not boot. Whether I connect to my desktop or my laptop via USB or eSata, the hard-drive will not trigger any response from the machine in question. Earlier today I opened up my main case and connected the hard-drive to my main motherboard power-supply and SATA cabling, swapping it for my main current primary drive. The drive was still not recognised-- even when I booted from my Vista install CD (DVD-RW drive) and then went through the Windows installation in an attempt to format the drive. The Windows set-up would only recognise my USB MyBook external drive .
I'm guessing that this hard-drive is just kaputt? Slightly frustrating considering it was broken-upon-delivery...