I purchased a WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN, have used it as an external but now would prefer to have it installed internally as I do not need it to be portable any longer.
When opening the drive its a WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0.
The drive works just fine with the sata/usb adapter connected, boots up, transfer speeds are great, etc. However when I remove the board and try to install it internally I get no power to the drive.
I have tested my cables with several SATA drives I have, all of them work and power the drives just fine, but when I plug it into this WD80EZAZ-11TDBA0, I get nothing. I cannot feel or hear the drive spin up, and for anyone thats ever held a drive while its on lets just say its quite easy to tell the difference as there is no spinning/wobbling effect or noise. My device manager (Win7) of course does not recognize it as its not even powering on.
Is this some security “feature” ? For kicks and giggles I formatted it to NTFS while attached as external USB, then reconnected it but no dice.
There appears to be some firmware/hardware mechanism thats preventing me from using it internally. Is this common practice for WD?
