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I need to purchase a replacement power supply for my 160GB HI-SPEED USB 2.0 SILVER EDITION DESKTOP HARD DRIVE
Serial number FPAF504478. Two of the pins broke inside the round end piece.

Does anyone have any idea where I can get one? I have looked just about everywhere I can think of to find one. My drive is only 2 years old and it appears Iomega does not sell a power supply replacement for my unit. I've had no luck contacting Iomega.

Is it possible to take this external hard drive out of the silver case and install it into my computer to access the data? The drive contains over ten years of design drawings.

thanks in advance

d
 
Tinster said:
Is it possible to take this external hard drive out of the silver case and install it into my computer to access the data? The drive contains over ten years of design drawings.

thanks in advance

d
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That is a pretty good possibility. From the dimensions, i would guess it is a laptop drive in there, in which case you may dneed an adapter to hook it to a desktop.... others will be along shortly that are more knowledgable than i.


mark
 
Thanks for any help offered. The Iomega drives works very well until I messed up the power input plug.

Here is a photo of the insides of the iomega external drive.
It looks to me like a standard computer hard drive.
It is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160 Gbyte hard drive.

I work with a custom made graphics computer. I have twin
SATA drives in the machine. The computer is five months in
age.

I am wonding if it might be possible to take out one of the
existing hard drives and connect the Iomega drive inside my
main box to transfer the data off it?

All this trouble over 2 broken pins in the power cord end.
Thanks guys!

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thanx for the pic. looks to me like what you have planned should be no problem. If you Motherboard has a hard drive header for a IDE drive. if not just find one that has one. It will have to be a secondary drive because this one i assume has no operating system on it.


mark
 
Swap it with your cd rom if you have one.
 
You can also get external USB adapter/cases that you can drop the HD into.
 
Getting real close to a solution with all the great advice.

The power connector in the photo, 2 black, a yellow
and a red is 100% identical to the power that connection
that feeds my a-drive. My A-drive feeds off the CD rom drive.

It appears I can plug the A-drive power connector directly
into the Iomega drive power slot, connect the USB between
Iomega and main computer and dump the Iomega into my spare
internal hard drive.

My only question is :

Are the volts, amps, etc going into my A-drive appropriate
to spin the Iomega drive without doing damage to it?

thanks, I think we've got this one solved if the electric is correct.

dale
 
I see several options here.
1. like Mark said if your M.B. has an I.D.E. header change the jumper/s on the drive to secondary slave and plug it in {make sure you use the second plug in on the I.D.E. cable} NOT the one on the end of the I.D.E. cable. You can purchase a Power splitter if need be, Most P.C.s have extra power plugs already.
2. Even if your P.C. dosent have an I.D.E. header {Im reasonably sure it does} you can purchase a P.C.I. I.D.E. card and instal it. This card will allow you to plug in Four I.D.E. drives into it.
3. Purchase an external adaptor case and put the drive into it.
That Segate drive looks to be a NORMAL I.D.E. drive
NOTE:
Some M.B.s use a conductor 80 I.D.E. cable {The newer machines} this cable is grey in color some { the older machines use a conductor 40 I.D.E. cable this cable is tan in color. both cables will work, However, IF the M.B. is capable of utelising the conductor 80 cable and you use a 40 cable instead, some access speed will be lost {In most cases negligable}. However during boot you will see a message "no Conductor 80 cable instaled" { This doesnt maean the drive wont be detected or the P.C. wont run.}
I hope this isnt confusing to you.
Good luck
Kerry
 
Dale
By this
It appears I can plug the A-drive power connector directly
into the Iomega drive power slot,

I assume you mean the power connector on the Iomega case. and NOT directly into the segate drive.

I would plug into the drive itself But might be hesitant to plug into the Iomegas power plug. the voltages shouldnt be an issue BUT the wireing sequences deffinately are!
You should have a power plug indise your P.C. that will plug directly into the segate drives power slot.
 
Kerry:

Here is the photo again. The small power connector at the top is identical to the power connector to my A-drive.

The small connector is connected to a wider connector below
it.

That wider connector is identical to the power connector for my DVD rom drive.

So How do I make use of power connectors inside my computer to spin the Iomega so I can plug a USB cable into it and dump the data onto my spare internal hard drive??


Thanks, dale
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The most simple solution is to plug it into the IDE connector. This is the type of connector found on older hard drives like this one, and on current CD / DVD drives. If you have only the one DVD drive, simply unplug it at the drive and plug this hard drive in the same place. Also move the power connector from the DVD drive to the hard drive.

Then just boot up your computer and the hard drive should come up as your D drive, just like the DVD-Rom used to.

Don't mess with power, you can fry that drive in a heart beat.

And for god's sake back that thing up next time!
 
Here is a better photo showing what parts are what.

I have 2 DVD drives, 2 hard drives and 1 A-drive.

What do I unplug from my computer and move over to
the Iomega? so I can then plug in the USB cable and
move the data into my No2 internal hard drive?

Sorry to be so dense, not my field.

thanks,

d

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The easiest way, so you don't have to change any jumpers, is to unplug the IDE cable from either optical drive. If they are both daisy chained on one cable, unplug it from both of them. Just keep a note of which drive was on which plug. Then plug that cable into the hard drive. Take the power from any available connector. Boot the computer and you should see it in your "My Computer" page.
 
Dale: Here is what I would do.


the plug in you are talking about on the iomega case is for the iomega board, this board controls the usb device if you plug the power connector from your A drive into it, not only might it not have the right voltages but it also will not power the drive itself. and it might not be wired with the right sequences of voltages, {not worth taking a chance}

to make things easier remove the segate drive from the iomega case unplug the iomega I.D.E. cable and power connector from the segate drive. once you have just the bare segate drive in hand, you can use either of the power connectors from the cd rom drives plug it directly into the segate drive. then use the cdrom I.D.E. cable from the cd rom drive and plug it into the segate drive. try to use the secondary plugin { the one in the middle of the I.D.E. cable. when pluging the I.D.E. cable into the segate drive looking at the rear of the drive where the plugs are {the RED stripe on the edge of the I.D.E. cable goes to the right. Next to the power recepticle. once you have it all pluged in boot your computer. you should see the segate drive in my computer.
I cant say what the drive letter is going to be because I dont know how many drives you have instaled and or how many partitions they may have on them.
Kerry
P.S. the segate drive does not have to be mounted inside of your P.C. case it can hang freely in mid air as long as it is not touching any of the other M.B. components it will be ok.
 
Success!!!

Mission underway-awesome.

During this past week I dragged the Iomega drive from this
computer expert to that computer expert even to Radioshack,
CompUSA, countless hours on the internet trying to find a
freaking power cord for the external hard drive. No one
could help me except one data recovery company that wanted
to charge me a $$bloody fortune to "recovery the lost data"

Data wasn't lost I explained, I need a power cord. Bottom
line, I told Wendy I was going to post the problem to
"The Old Guys" as my wife fondly calls us. Well, us "old
guys" have a heap of talent amoung us.

The Iomega is spinning away and dumping it's 80+ gig guts
into my No2 internal hard drive as I write this.

Thank you one and all. My archive of Tens years of design
drawings is back with me and available.

Dale /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thankyousign.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/computer.gif

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...and BACK UP that data on something else as well!!!
 
Thanks mark,

I installed the Iomega as a 3rd internal hard drive.
I copied all the info into a partition on No.2 drive.

Now I think I'll go get a new external that is
powered by USB so I don't have this problem again.

d /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif
 
Get TWO!!!
 
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