It's a 250gig Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, can't remember if i got this one from Scan or Aria, but not to worry Maxtor will take it direct.
Usually have it in a IcyBox USB/Firewire case but when i powered it up a few days ago, it seen in windows. The LED on mu USB hub just blinked every few seconds. Tried it in another similar box and get the same results. I don't have a desktop i can try this in, so hooked up a PATA to SATA adapter and plugged it into a CardBus SATA card. The drive spins up, but again, isn't seen in windows.
Is this dead? worked fine in the USB case for months and months before. What i don't want to happen is send it to Maxtor and they say it is fine and charge me for the privelege.
Had a look in Disk Administrator and there is nothing there either, so it's not that it just isn't being added to explorer.
thanks