Various Topics on Hardware

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First let me apologize if I show my ignorance but I learned long ago it
is only through our ignorance that we learn.

Here is my problem and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I
have not attached my real Email to this simply because years ago I did
and wound up attracting the notice of Korean Spammers. I will read any
responses here in the group.


My issue started last year, My mom p***ed away and left me her old
E-machine. (I knew I was getting a pig in a poke of a machine) one day
the machine would not turn off. Finally got it turned off, came home
from work and it would never come back on.

I thought if there was anyway to retrieve the info that I had stored on
the drive the cheapest and easiest way would be to get an external USB
Drive shell and put the HD in it.

purchased a bytecc me-835su for the job. Initially was stupid and left
the drive jumpers on, then took the jumpers off. All the lights came on
ever thing from the outside appears to run.

Have connected the computer to 1) Compaq desktop running XP, 2) Dell
Laptop running XP 3)Dell Desktop running vista.

MMC on all three computers does not see the new HD. What am I doing
wrong or am I just looking at a bum Hard Drive??

also I really don't want to put money into this if the HD is Bad, Can
anyone recommend somewhere I could find a under 1 GB HD CHEAP that I can
just experiment with until such time as I want to put real money into
it. Per the Bytecc site that model will work with a HD up to a terabyte
in size.

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What operating system was on the E-Machine. Have you tried installing the
drive as a slave drive in one of your other systems?
You are obviously familiar with the jumpers, I would go that route (cheapest
and it takes lots of variables out of the picture). If it works in the
system you know it's not the drive. If it doesn't then you can say it is the
drive and get a different one for your external enclosure.

"Wizard of OCD" <non4@none.com> wrote in message
news:482c61d1$0$31719$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
First let me apologize if I show my ignorance but I learned long ago it
is only through our ignorance that we learn.

Here is my problem and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I
have not attached my real Email to this simply because years ago I did
and wound up attracting the notice of Korean Spammers. I will read any
responses here in the group.


My issue started last year, My mom p***ed away and left me her old
E-machine. (I knew I was getting a pig in a poke of a machine) one day
the machine would not turn off. Finally got it turned off, came home
from work and it would never come back on.

I thought if there was anyway to retrieve the info that I had stored on
the drive the cheapest and easiest way would be to get an external USB
Drive shell and put the HD in it.

purchased a bytecc me-835su for the job. Initially was stupid and left
the drive jumpers on, then took the jumpers off. All the lights came on
ever thing from the outside appears to run.

Have connected the computer to 1) Compaq desktop running XP, 2) Dell
Laptop running XP 3)Dell Desktop running vista.

MMC on all three computers does not see the new HD. What am I doing
wrong or am I just looking at a bum Hard Drive??

also I really don't want to put money into this if the HD is Bad, Can
anyone recommend somewhere I could find a under 1 GB HD CHEAP that I can
just experiment with until such time as I want to put real money into
it. Per the Bytecc site that model will work with a HD up to a terabyte
in size.