Sabrent USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA not powering Hard Drive

[Guest]

Hello all,

I bought a Sabrent USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Hard Drive Converter (USB-DSC5) a few months ago, and it has been working just fine. However yesterday it stopped powering the hard drives being plugged in. I plu the power cord into the wall and the adapter into the hard drive and flip the "on" switch, and instead of the blue light that comes on, there is a blue blinking light. The Hard drive does not turn on at all. This has happened with every hard drive I plug in without exception. The blinking occurs regardless of if the hard drive is plugged into the computer or not.

Any help would be extremely appreciated, I need this hard drive and it contains very important files.

 

[USAFRet]

Sounds like your Sabrent is dead, not the drive.

 

[Guest]

Then why are the lights still on?

 

[USAFRet]

Then why are the lights still on?

That may just mean that the wire supplying power to that LED is not broken.

You've tried this with multiple drives, and it does not work.
Have you tried it with another USB port?

If it still fails on a different USB port...then it is probably dead.

 

[Guest]

The USB is not the problem, powering the hard drive is. There are two separate parts to it, the part from the wall to the hard drive, and the part from the hard drive to the computer. I have no way of testing the cord from the hard drive to the computer because I have no hard drive to test it, because none of them are receiving any power. The power cord may be dead, but I do not know if the USB to SATA part is working or not.

 

[nukemaster]

Shut off your computer, open the computer and connect a hard drive to the internal power supply.

Fire it up, the drive should start to spin. Once in the OS connect the USB cable to see what it does.

Try not to move the hard drive while it is spinning.

Those little power supplies do not always last.

I had one from Bytecc for years, but it did fail(drives would try to spin up and the power supply would fold and then try again). I used to use it for all kinds of things too(was a good power supply to test fans and all in one pumps and so on. Maybe using it with an amplifier was a bad idea 😛 ).

 

[USAFRet]

The USB is not the problem, powering the hard drive is. There are two separate parts to it, the part from the wall to the hard drive, and the part from the hard drive to the computer. I have no way of testing the cord from the hard drive to the computer because I have no hard drive to test it, because none of them are receiving any power. The power cord may be dead, but I do not know if the USB to SATA part is working or not.

Yes, I know. I have a similar, maybe the exact same one.
Can you plug that drive internally? If it works, then probably the Sabrent power supply is dead.

 

[Guest]

Thank you all! Nukemaster and USAFret both had correct solutions. I think you both were right, the power supply is dead.

 

[nukemaster]

That just reminds me I need a new one of those too.

I use it mostly for testing stuff so I may just modify and old external power supply to have a molex LP4 connector.