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Originally Posted by Highway-Star
If the Barracuda -drive is just completely silent ("dead") on power / or the computer does not recognize the drive at all (with drive, cables properly installed), usually culprit is just the (green) controller card at the bottom of the drive.
- Swap it from a working similar drive ---> should work okay for years.
- You need a small Torx -head screw-driver to open the screws at the bottom.
Have had about 10-15 of those and similar Maxtor drives fail. 8 out of 10 they've been the cards, 2 out of ten started to get massive amounts of bad inodes. Always managed to salvage data though.. they are good drives.
Please let us know how it goes..
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THIS! ^
I've done this a few times in the past. Basically, just remove the external "system board" from a know good identical drive and install it on the failed drive.
Of course, finding an identical drive may prove to be quite a challenge.
Randy