Win7 "No Drives found" SATA drive

DocBrown said:

Just made a pic of the HD with the broken plastic around the 7 pin data connector (HD # 2)

HD #1 is the good one with the L shaped plastic supporting the 7 pin data

Yes! that is the way it looks, all naked, no plastic backing on the 7-pin connectors, and there is a L-shape to it to seat the wire. Tech gal confirmed that it was "broke" that Seagate might be able to repair, but I think I'll try the docking unit 1st, and a new HD.

I don't know how it lasted 5 months. I never had the box open, and there is no little plastic pieces in there. Just must have been "it's time" to kick.

I will follow-up.

If it will seat in the external adapter then it may last a good while longer for you as an external storage drive. Run Disk Check on it to check how the file system is holding up.

Nice pic, Doc.

DocBrown said:

Just made a pic of the HD with the broken plastic around the 7 pin data connector (HD # 2)

HD #1 is the good one with the L shaped plastic supporting the 7 pin data

I've had a new 2TB SATA drive on order since Sunday.
I'd like to figure out a way to recover the data from the damaged drive.

Noting the Rosewill HD docking unit, I got a Thermaltake docking unit, but was unable to connect the damaged drive to either the HTPC or another older PC. I'm not sure whether the docking unit is bootable on my HTPC or compatible with my other older Dell destop. At this point I'm waiting on the new drive to see whether I can install the new drive and then try hooking up the docking unit.

Does this sound plausible, or am I simulating drug usage?
Any suggestions?