seagate st1000vm002 video 3.5 as a storage drive

Thyces

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ive looked around and cant seem to find too much info so thought id try here.
i have a seagate 1t drive from a rogers pvr that i wanted to use as a storage drive on my laptop but i cant seem to get it recognized
ubuntu 13.10
dell studio 1645
power over e sata port and cable
ive tryed other drives with this same setup and all is well so my question is can these drives be used for the purpose im intending?
any help or info would be appreciated
 
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Great! 99% of Tom's users are on some flavor of Windows. I am a HUGE fan of Linux.

The drive should be useable. My question is whether it is getting power or not. Can you connect via an internal SATA port and power connection (connected directly to PSU) to see if the drive spins up?

COLGeek

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It is likely formatted in a way not recognized by Windows. Does the HDD appear in Disk Management (Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management) at all?

Also, can you tell whether the HDD is spinning up when power is applied?
 

Thyces

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i run linux (ubuntu 13.10) on my machine so partition type is not usually an issue (linux can read 99.9% of drives even windows and mac partitions). Disk is not spinning. my main concern is that this is a VIDEO PVR\survailence drive http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/video-3-5-hdd/?sku=ST1000VM002
and i cant seem to find out if they can even be recognized by a pc
 

COLGeek

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Great! 99% of Tom's users are on some flavor of Windows. I am a HUGE fan of Linux.

The drive should be useable. My question is whether it is getting power or not. Can you connect via an internal SATA port and power connection (connected directly to PSU) to see if the drive spins up?
 
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Thyces

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This was my first instinct so i grabbed a old delapitated desktop, plugged the psu from desktop to the drive then just to kill two birds with one stone i plugged the sata cable from the hdd to an adapter (esata male to sata female) to the original laptop and voila! :) spin and readability. you were right about the drive compatibility. It was just the power over esata port on the laptop wasnt giving enough juice to run a 3.5 hdd
Thanks for the assistance
P.S. I dont understand why anyone who truly understands windows wouldnt run some flavor of linux but we'll leave that for another forum
;)
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