Hello - I would appreciate any help/advice with below

My old computer recently died. I have purchased a new one. I also bought an Icy Box External enclosure 3.5 so I could retrieve info. I placed my old Maxtor Diamond Max HDD in the enclosure and attached it to the new pc via a USB port. My new computer recognised this at first and I was able to transfer some files from old pc to new. However a short time later my new PC stopped recognising the external HDD. I have tried it for several days now and it still fails to recognise it. I have taken HDD out of enclosure and placed it back in and also tried connecting the Icy Box to another machine - no luck.

I note that the two LED's on the enclosure are on all the time. Indicating Power On and continued HDD access. This was not the case at first when it did work.

Is this likely to be a fault with the Icy Box or HDD?

Thanks in anticipation.

Does it show up in the disk manager?

> Start
> Control Panel (switch to "classic view")
> Administrative tools
> Computer Management
> DisK Management

Your system disK will be marked as C:\ , any other active drives will be marked D:\, E:\ , etc... If the partition table is corrupt on your external drive, it will show as "Unknown Partition". If this is the case, you can try reformatting, but it's unlikely that the the disk will last much longer, and it should be replaced.

The best way to check if your case is borked is to try it with another disk. If it works, it's the disk, if it doesn't, it;'s the caddy.