External HD not recognized

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chacha1299 Posts 1 Registration date Tuesday July 29, 2014 Status Member Last seen July 30, 2014 - Jul 30, 2014 at 03:08 AM
xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Aug 5, 2014 at 07:10 PM
I bought a silicon power diamond D03 500gb hard drive i bought it a year ago and it worked fine, yesterday i transferred a couple of files of my computer into it and today the hard drive is not recognized on my computer , and LED light is blue when its usually red. i tried connecting it to other laptops but it remains the same.
is there a way to make it recognized and why is the LED light blue?
HELP!

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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,826
Aug 5, 2014 at 07:10 PM
I assume the disk drive is broken. These units usually have one color for "power on" and another for "data transfer".

I would look into buying a new laptop drive and pry open the case to replace the broken one.

Good Luck
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