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Hard Drive and SSD not Powering Up

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ThinkAgain157

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So here's a bit of backstory for all of you. My hard-drive died, and I had it RMA'd. After a bit of fiddling around, I received a new hard-drive (WD Black 1TB) and picked up a Crucial M500 240GB as well. While installing Windows 7, I realized that neither of the drives were on and they weren't being powered. The hard-drive was cold and wasn't spinning.

So my question is, is this a problem with the drives, or with the power supply? Everything else works fine and is powering on - everything except the drives.
 
There are some ways to test this. Just on its face, it seems that having both drives stop operating indicates there is a problem with the computer, not both of them. But can't rule it out yet.

Do you have access to another computer, or another computer power supply? Or, something like a USB adapter for a hard drive, that comes with its own power supply for the hard drive?

You can apply power to a hard drive all by itself, not connected to a computer, and see if the drive spins up. It should. If it doesn't, there is a problem with the drive.

Now, there is a chance that your computer power supply had a problem that damaged both drives at the same time, breaking them both. I doubt it.

Oh, also, you can check if your computer has a good power supply cord, maybe for a fan or DVD drive. Then unplug from that device, and plug into the drive, to see if the drive spins.
 
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