Question HDD letter not being read

[Artisanico]

Question - on the HDD:

What is the drive setting via the small jumper?

I think you can just see the two jumpers covering the four right-hand pins. I think they are both aligned vertically, but not sure.

 

[Artisanico]

Being as your using a gutted caddy we have no idea if that caddy is good, bad or just does not like the drive in the first place.

Back when we had only IDE drive you could never be guaranteed the caddy you bought would play nice with say a Maxtor drive worked just fine but you put in an old Seagate and no dice. I have boxes and boxes of them in the old forgotten computer parts pile.

Out of all of the external setups I have the most reliable is the link below. I have relied on it for over 20 years and just works.

Even if the drive is toast but the platter still spins the PC would react to the drive if the caddy is sending information.

The computer would freeze until you unplugged bad drive.

The drive would show up and say it need to be formatted.

If the drive showed up and is greyed out and you clicked on it you would get the forever green bar trying to read the drive.

But that's only if the caddy is sending the information to the PC.

If the drive is just dead you would get nothing. No spinning you can feel and hear from the drive and PC might not even react.

Also I have seen some external hard drives that were sold as a unit not work unless the drive that came with the caddy was in the caddy. Same as the hard drive will not work out of the caddy.

On a side note the Master/ slave/ cable select jumper is still on the IDE drive?



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The caddy is brand new; the jumper is as I have always had it.

 

[fzabkar]

@Artisanico, you stated that the drive was "buzzing". If it isn't spinning up, then it could be a stiction fault (heads stuck to platters). Alternatively, the spindle motor could be seized. If the buzzing starts after the motor spins up, there could be a problem at the loading ramp.

Can you be more specific about this noise?

 

[Artisanico]

@Artisanico, you stated that the drive was "buzzing". If it isn't spinning up, then it could be a stiction fault (heads stuck to platters). Alternatively, the spindle motor could be seized. If the buzzing starts after the motor spins up, there could be a problem at the loading ramp.

Can you be more specific about this noise?

The motor is absolutely fine. All the noises it makes are those that I recognise from two decades of using hard disk drives.

 

[Ralston18]

I think you can just see the two jumpers covering the four right-hand pins. I think they are both aligned vertically, but not sure.

I do not understand.

The jumper generally establishes the drive's place in the hierarchy as noted by @stonecarver.

I do not recall ever seeing any hard drives with more than one jumper (covering two pins) in place.

Also regarding: "The cables are connected to my laptop in exactly the way they are designed to be"....

True: the cables may fit on each end but that does not necessarily means that the pinouts are correct.

The more I look at Imgur image 2/5 the more I wonder about the Molex connection.

Wires: Yellow, Black, Black, Red - then I see Yellow, Black, Red, Black.

Colors aside: what are the pinouts?

The voltages and grounds must match.

 

[fzabkar]

https://datasheet.datasheetarchive....hgst.com/8cb640427e6355e041403f75400921e6.pdf

If the drive is the only drive on a cable or the master drive on a two-drive cable, leave the jumpers as set at A-B and G-H for 16 head logical architecture. The jumpers are factory set to Master-16 heads.

If the drive is the slave drive on a two-drive cable, set the jumpers at A-B and C-D for 16-head logical architecture.

https://i.postimg.cc/g0DJcB9p/Hitachi-Deskstar-P7-K500-jumpers.gif (jumpers)

From the legend on the drive label, it would appear that "32GB clip" has been selected. That tallies with Disk Management.

Can you show us a SMART report?

https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecoverysoftware/wiki/index/smart/

Edit:

https://www.manualslib.com/download/280071/Hitachi-Cinemastar-P7k500.html (page 47)