Am unable to access my transcend external hard drive..

purplekaycee · Sep 5, 2016

Beginning this afternoon I have been unable to access my hard drive
When I plug it into my computer it keeps blinking and blinking light.
Towards the tail end of the compter accessing it.
What can i do?

FR@NK · Sep 5, 2016

Time to open it up and pull out the drive!

Mussels · Sep 5, 2016

open it up and take out the drive, put it into your PC internally.

it could be totally dead, or it could just be the enclosure.

purplekaycee · Sep 5, 2016

Didn't know its possible to insert external hard drive into a cpu.
How do I go about it?
My cpu uses sata cords while the external drive come with a 3.0 cord.

INSTG8R · Sep 5, 2016

purplekaycee said:
Didn't know its possible to insert external hard drive into a cpu.
How do I go about it?
My cpu uses sata cords while the external drive come with a 3.0 cord.

It's still a standard SATA drive inside.

eidairaman1 · Sep 5, 2016

Use a different usb cable if you have one that fits the drive (unless if hardwired to enclosure)or open it up and put in desktop pc

purplekaycee · Sep 5, 2016

did exactly as you said .It works now :toast:

i dont know how to thank you guys :roll:

eidairaman1 · Sep 5, 2016

purplekaycee said:
did exactly as you said .It works now i dont know how to thank you guys

the adapter board is shot

cdawall · Sep 6, 2016

And you are very lucky there are new drives from WD, toshiba and seagate that dumped the SATA adapter and are directly USB3.0 disks.

purplekaycee · Sep 7, 2016

eidairaman1 said:
the adapter board is shot

You mean the hard drive's adapter?

Mussels · Sep 7, 2016

purplekaycee said:
You mean the hard drive's adapter?

the USB to SATA adaptor that you removed, to put it inside the PC.

You can buy a generic enclosure off ebay or from a store, to make it external again.

Jetster · Sep 7, 2016

You should try it on another PC first. Most likely its the housing but it could be something else. No sense in breaking your drive specially if its under warranty

silkstone · Sep 7, 2016

INSTG8R said:
It's still a standard SATA drive inside.

Not all of them. I have a portable WD unit with strange connectors.
Possibly an esata port that cannot be plugged in internally.

Jetster · Sep 7, 2016

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Am unable to access my transcend external hard drive..

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