On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:03:02 -0400, Barry Watzman
<> wrote:
I figured it was either the cable select or that the drive
had spin up/power problems. My opinion is that you are
better off with it dead, I don't think you could have
trusted it.
John
>Tried that. No go. And it was not visible in BIOS, so no utilities
>would detect it.
>
>Tried everything and I'm sure that the hard drive had an obscure defect
>that made it inop on SOME systems. I put the drive on a desktop using
>an IDE adapter and ZAP gave a "sector not found error". Then, sadly, I
>incorrectly plugged in the IDE desktop to laptop adapter (off by one
>pin) and blew up the drive. So it's all moot now.
>
>
>John T Maguire wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:11:53 -0400, Barry Watzman
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> Barry, try it with a jumper on D-B, it's the only thing I
>> can think of -
>>
>>> I bought a used 2.5" IDE hard drive on E-Bay, Toshiba MK3021GAS, 30GB.
>>>
>>> The drive is not recognized ... AT ALL ... in ANY laptop that I've tried
>>> to use it in (4 different models, all are Toshiba laptops, however).
>>> It's not even seen as being present, so I can't use FDISK or any utilities.
>>>
>>> BUT ... when I connect the drive to my desktop computer using a USB to
>>> IDE adapter cable, it is seen and functions normally. It does work, I
>>> can actually use it to store data.
>>>
>>> I've tried everything I can think of ... reformatting it (both NTFS and
>>> FAT), making it active, making it inactive, deleting all partitions.
>>> The results are as I described above ... seems PERFECT on the desktop,
>>> not even seen as existing on the laptop (which was the intended use).
>>>
>>> This does not appear to be a master-slave issue, I have checked the
>>> jumpers and they are correct (no jumpers at all for master), I've also
>>> tried cable select, no change.
>>>
>>> I don't have a way of "zapping" the drive (writing zeros to the entire
>>> drive) over the USB cable, and nothing works on the laptop. I can't
>>> easily do anything using the desktop (e.g. it would be a LOT of trouble
>>> to connect the drive to an IDE port of the desktop, I'd have to open the
>>> desktop, disconnect everything, etc. ... I'm trying to avoid that).
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on or how I can resolve
>>> this? The drive seems good, I can actually use it (on the desktop with
>>> the USB adapter), but I bought it for the laptop.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
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