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Hi.

I bought a Western Digital Scorpio 160GB Sata drive (WD1600BEVS) to replace the current 40 GB drive in my T60.

I also bought a Newstar 3 external 2.5" SATA enclosure.

The HDD is not recognized by the T60 and it sounds as if the HDD is not powering up (cannot hear the drive spin up even though the HDD light flashes.

Here are the symptoms /actions

When the HDD is installed in the Newstar drive, XP recognises the Initio chip but the drive does not appear either in Explorer or in the Disk Management section of the Administrative tools in Control Panel.
The drive light flashes, but the drive does not spin up

Thinking it was the Newstar enclosure,
* I borrowed another new one, but the symptoms were the same.
* I swapped the original 40GB Hitachi drive and the WD 160GB drive and XP did not boot up, the 160GB drive did not spin up either.
* I installed the 40GB Hitachi drive in the Newstar enclosure and this powers up, spins up and is recognised when placed on another PC as an external drive

Thinking that it was the WD Scorpio drive, I borrowed a new Seagate 160GB SATA drive but the effects were the same (no power up, no spinning noise from the drive).

I have tried both the Seagate and the WD 160GB drives in both of the Newstar 3 enclosures, and neither of them is recognised by another PC when connected as external drives.

From other postings on this forum, I understand that the T60 can take a 160GB drive. Both the Seagate and the WD drives seeom to have similar power requirements to the original Hitachi 40 GB drive.

So I am really puzzled.

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks in advanc for your suggestions

it could be a power requirement on the HDD...some, as I have seen, need a little bit more juice to start cold, but work fine on the same power when already spinning up. If you have a nokia phone charger handy, you can try plugging it into the enclosure DC in port, to see if you need additional power.


I dont have a 160gb hdd handy, but I can easily boot a 120gb seagate both in an enclosure and swapped into the hdd slot without any issues. I suspect that you may have a defective drive of sorts.

It might be your motherboard power supply went bad.
I had 7k100, 7200.2, 7k200 installed on my X60s, they all run fine.
I don't think your WD drive is more power hungry then these 7200rpm drives.