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Raven · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: external hard drive

right you techie buffs i need advice my external hard drive stopped working the other week , when i switched it on nothing happened no little blue light appeared to say it was on , i looked at the adapter and noticed that the green power light was not on , so i thinks to myself that the fuse has gone in the plug , so change the fuse still nothing , conclusion the adapter is broken , simple solution get a new one , which came to day plugged it in and hey presto the hard drive does not come on , so any ideas is it the internal workings of the casing , if so is it feasable to buy a whole new casing and power supply . and insert the acutal hard drive from the broken one to the new one ,

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localad · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 273

Simple answer

Yes, the external HDD carriage/case is very easily bought online, locally or at a push, down at PCWorld

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They are very easy to fit too.

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Raven · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject:

thanks local lad , will look at ebay as ive seen them on there dirt cheap

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localad · Joined: 25 Jan 2008 Posts: 273

or there mate.....

I just have an allergy to getting anything electrical off ebay....mind you, at the moment have an allergy to ebay full stop!

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Maz · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 39

Try ebuyer scratch that just looked and there aren't any strange as they usually have loads, got a safecom caddy from them and it's great

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Raven · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:

thanks maz , will have to get something sorted as all my pics and music files are on it

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Maz · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 39

Code:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/3-5-External-Enclosure-Caddy-cooling/dp/B000PKIXMW/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1209598100&sr=1-10

This is the one, got a 250gig HD in it bit noisy but it has a good fan, my other one doesn;t it overheated and I lost everything, if you can find one of these cheaper should be ok, postage would be high from amazon I think

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