so I purchased an old Seagate 1TB goflex hard drive from a friend because he lost the power cable and has since had any need to use it.
However, upon testing it with a new power cable I had, I have discovered that it doesn't boot up, is not even seen by my laptop. The symptoms are as follows:
1 - I plug in the 1TB to my laptop and says installing drivers, after a few minutes, like 5, it says installed Initio default controller is successfully installed. Only problem is, I still can't enter or use the hard drive
2 - While its installing the default controller I notice that when I touch the hard drive I feel no spin up movement or sounds for that matter, tis dead cold
I carefully opened up the plastic case and plugged the hard drive directly into my desktop computer to see any difference and nothing
Does anyone know of a fix for this? Can I at the very least send this thing in to get a replacement warranty on the hard drive itself? I don't really care for the cables. Can anyone help me?
