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Otherwise, you've gotten some excellent suggestions about troubleshooting. I don't like the fact that this turns hardware into trash (I do try to have all of it recycled), but one has to be realistic. Hardware is inexpensive and skilled labor is not. resistors, capacitors, ICs, etc.) repair for computers in most (certainly not all) cases.

My point is that we've moved beyond component (i.e. Time and reliability are worth much more than the cost of the new hardware. What I would be very unlikely to do is to try repairing the failed circuitry. I'd either purchase an external enclosure (around $30) and install their drive in it or I would purchase a new external drive ($50-100, depending on size) and copy the data over. I would be trying to save the client's data (which is likely intact since the drive is working) and get them back up and running with an external hard drive. This runs us right up to the question of what you are trying to accomplish. If it worked I could fairly conclusively say that the problem is either in the drive housing circuitry or in the external power supply. A critical question is what are you really trying to accomplish? For example, if someone brought me the external drive you are describing I would follow the suggestions that have been posted here about pulling the drive out and testing it in a computer. I've got to toss a comment in here about the general question of fault finding.