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Answer» Quote from: dgreen on July 10, 2014, 02:08:43 PM Thanks Geek. USB SATA IDE Adapter Do you have a uk link as this goes to US with dollars etcThere's plenty of online currency converters...google even has one...I'm not looking for a currency converter, I'm looking for a link to a uk product sold in the uk.. Can you give me the description I need to put in the search box. Quote from: dgreen on July 12, 2014, 04:07:43 PM Can you give me the description I need to put in the search box.Quote from: Geek-9pm on July 10, 2014, 03:54:02 PM USB SATA IDE AdapterHi Could please confirm that the drive is USB powered ? ie it doesn't have a power supply. If it is USB powered is it USB 2.0 or 3.0 . Usb 3.0 has a flat connector at the drive end. Are you using the cable supplied with the drive? As some cables have a VOLTAGE drop that stops the drive starting. Can you feel or hear the drive spinning if not it could be the wrong cable. Is the drive making any ticking noise and then spinning down? If so the drive is faulty and needs professional recovery. Most modern WD drives can't be used with adapters as the USB connector is attached to the drive circuit board. Also some models of MyBook drives shouldn't be separated from there USB to SATA adapters due to encryption. Hope this is of some help if so please click the thanks button Lisamaree Thanks Lisamaree, that's great advice.. This is exactly the reason I was asking for a more specific description because the one mentioned above doesn't say anything about having a power supply which it clearly needs. obviously they didn't fully understand what I was asking and probably assumed I would know that already. I may have sounded dumb asking that question but I just WANTED the full description so that I wouldn't buy the wrong cable. Surely that's not a crime :-)Hi From your disk manger picture its a drive with a power supply. Probable the square sided WD drive going be the capacity. If so the drive and interface are separate boards. The disk is able to be plugged into a desktop PC using a sata power and data lead ( there is no encryption ). If the 12v powersupply was faulty the drive wouldn't detect, which as it is detected in disk manager isn't the case. I would check it with data recovery software and see if you can see the directory and files. One to try is Stella Phoenix http://www.stellar-info.com/windows-data-recovery.php Run the evaluation copy and check what it finds. Hi. The WD Drive is an external one which I've taken out of its case because the adapter broke. The adaper is on a little circuit board which I'm guessing has the power supply built in. I put the drive into a sata docking station which has its own power supply and that's where the disk management picked it up.. If I got a sata cable I'm assuming I'm going to need one with a power supply. Do I still need to GET the cable or can I run the recovery software while the drive is in the docking station? You can run the data recovery with the drive in the docking station. If it is a USB docking station it could be very slow. Also you will need enough free space on another drive to copy the data to. When you say a small board did the drive COME from a Mybook WD drive? If so you may need to get the interface board repaired to see the data. The interface does have a 12v to 5 volt power supply to power the drive electronics. |
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