Question Internal HD connected externally via USB not recognized

[AbdulMuhammed]

I turned on my ASUS laptop the other day and it wouldn't even power up. After much diagnosing, it was dead. I removed the 1 T. platter H.D. and the 500G SSD drives and got a new laptop. The SSD (the primary drive with the O.S. showed up fine when connected via USB and I transferred files to the new laptop. I used a Sabrent kit I had to connect the power and SATA to a USB and tried to transfer the 1T platter drive files and it isn't recognized. The SATA light flashes on the Sabrent, so I know it is trying to get info, and I hear the platters spinning.



1. Laptop is ASUS Zenbook with a pathetic 500G SSD and no backup drive bays.

2. O.S. is Win 11 (original laptop OS was Win 10)

3. SATA light on Sabrent block flashes intermittently

4. Drive Management in new laptop doesn't even see a drive is connected externally.

Any Suggestions? I doubt there was a catastrophic failure of the drive as it was a secondary and the SSD is fine. I bought a new SATA cable b/c I thought it may be a cable issue, but no. I connected a very old 44 pin IDE platter HD via the Sabrent kit using that connection and it was detected immediately.

 

[Ralston18]

This:

"The SSD (the primary drive with the O.S. showed up fine when connected via USB and I transferred files to the new laptop"

What files were transferred? Did the transfer include Windows?

 

[Misgar]

I doubt there was a catastrophic failure of the drive as it was a secondary

It doesn't matter whether the drive was your main (primary) drive or used as secondary storage. Drives can fail at any time. I have a 2TB drive which spins up but is not recognised by the BIOS or Windows. It needs to go to a recovery agency. Of course I keep multiple backups, so I haven't lost anything.

I used a Sabrent kit I had to connect the power and SATA to a USB

I don't suppose you know if the Sabrent kit applies "sector translation"? Probably not.

 

[AbdulMuhammed]

It is a Sabrent DSC5 that I've had for years. As I said, it detects very old 44pin HDs. I don't have a SATA drive other than the one I'm trying to open.
When I connected the old SSD, it opened fine. I didn't transfer the Windows files as the new laptop already had Win 11. BUT all picture/text/etc. files transferred fine and I can play a game (Civ 5) directly from the attached drive.
If the 1T. Platter drive failed right at the time that the laptop failed, it seems like a coincidence-SSDs are more sensitive to power surges, etc.
Yes-I'm an idiot for not backing up the 1T backup drive...I'm going to lose 4 years of Doctoral degree research and my dissertation...

 

[Bob.B]

It is a Sabrent DSC5 that I've had for years. As I said, it detects very old 44pin HDs. I don't have a SATA drive other than the one I'm trying to open.
When I connected the old SSD, it opened fine. I didn't transfer the Windows files as the new laptop already had Win 11. BUT all picture/text/etc. files transferred fine and I can play a game (Civ 5) directly from the attached drive.
If the 1T. Platter drive failed right at the time that the laptop failed, it seems like a coincidence-SSDs are more sensitive to power surges, etc.
Yes-I'm an idiot for not backing up the 1T backup drive...I'm going to lose 4 years of Doctoral degree research and my dissertation...

Have you tried different usb ports on the pc?

Got a neighbor or friend that you can test this setup on their machine?