computer not reading HDD from Dock

bribri_2

I had a laptop that stopped powering up (from mains or battery)
I took out the HDD and bought a HDD Dock.

I plug the dock in to the mains, and connect to a computer via USB.

The drive shows up on the computer. I insert the HDD into the dock and hear a whirring.

But when I double clikc on the drive icon it says "insert a disk into drive".

Any suggestions?

Thank you

Browntoa

sata drive ??

IDE (Pata) drive ??

it the latter then you need to move the small clip at the back to slave

Lucero_2

Does it appear in Disk Manager. Are you sure the reason the old laptop wasn't booting was because the disk had died??

bribri_2

Hi

It appears in disk manager but 0Mb on it.

I can hear the HD whirring in the dock and the drive appears in My computer but when clicking on it, it says please insert disk,

The laptop showed power going in but when pressing the power on button, it lit up and then died.

macman

That's not indicative of a hard drive problem. If it was, you'd have got a system error message ('boot error', 'no system disk found', etc), but the laptop would still power up.
What you describe sounds like a power supply issue or a mobo problem.

bribri_2

Thank you macman. That was my view which was why I wanted to use the dock to extract what was on the HD.

Lucero_2

How old was the laptop that his drive came from? Did it have any sort of encryption on it?

bribri_2

It is a SATA drive.

The laptop was perhaps 5 years old??

No encryption.

Lucero_2

So, just to clarify, you are installing the disk in the caddy before powering on and connecting via USB?

bribri_2

So, just to clarify, you are installing the disk in the caddy before powering on and connecting via USB?

Yes and also powering on and connecting USB and then inserting disk in caddy.

Lucero_2

bribri wrote: »

Yes and also powering on and connecting USB and then inserting disk in caddy.

The later won't work, the disk needs to be in the caddy and connected via USB before power on. Does this caddy have any switches on it (ie, USB, eSATA)?

Also, can you provide me with the diskpart output.