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Took it out of the enclosure, and the HDD worked fine! So: problem solved. :)

It has its own PSU.

I have an external Cavalry 500GB 3.5" USB 2.0 HDD which recently started giving drive errors while trying to read a file which is very important to me (a disk archive image). I bought a program, HDD Regenerator, to see if I could recover the sector, whose number I was able to identify...

Thanks for the link.

I need to replace the power switch on my external USB HD's enclosure; is there a good place to buy components like that on the net? (I tried newegg but they don't seem to stock such small items.)

I don't see how that would be a problem... They (2 DVD drives + 1 HD) were working fine to my knowledge before installing the iLok.

Thanks. I just recently flashed the DW-22A DVD RW it and it worked for probably 2 weeks to a month before this problem showed up. I guess I could re-flash it but I doubt that's the problem.

You mean the iLok dongle? It's made by Pace, is used to copy-protect music software.

Thanks. Tried this but didn't help.

I'm having troubles getting my SONY DVD RW DW-D22A drive to to stuff that until about 2 weeks ago, it had no problems with: burning and reading CD-RW's and DVD-R's. The problems began, (I am guessing) when I installed a USB device (Pace Interlok, a copy protection Dongle), then uninstalled...

Okay, thanks for the info guys!

Hey, this is probably a kind of unusual question, but bear with me. I have a 6ish year-old Athlon Thunderbird desktop which seems to be in the process of dying(?). When I turn it on, it makes a low-ish pitched grinding/grumbling noise until maybe 5 or so minutes after it was powered up...