I'm having problems with my computer recognizing my external hard drive

Naomi Sheehan

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Jan 31, 2015
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I had an external hard drive in a case, but I lost the power cord for it. When I realized that the company no longer made that power cord connection, I bought a new case. This is an old hard drive, and has gone through a couple moves. I haven't used it in probably 3 years now...
I have a 500GB Hitachi hard drive, and now it's in a rosewill case.
Now, when I plug it into the computer, it doesn't do anything. The computer doesn't even recognize a USB device has been plugged in. The drive doesn't show up on my computer or on my Disk Manager.

Is there anything I can do at this point, or is the actual hard drive bad?

Thank you!
 

Naomi Sheehan

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Jan 31, 2015
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Nope, not at all. The light on the case acts as if the hard drive is being accessed - it flashes like it normally would, and the hard drive doesn't make any weird noises.