Is my Maxxtor External HDD a brick now?

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  1. CHEESEPIE

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    I recently found a maxtor external HDD in my basement. According to my pop it hasn't been used in years. I found the cables and such and decided to give it a whirl as I am in need of some space to back up some things, its pretty old so its only a 120 gig disk. It seems to power on as a blue light appears on the front of the silver case when I flip the switch, however when I plug it into my laptop via usb nothing is recognized, as if it weren't even plugged in, no tone or anything. Is this drive a brick am I doing something wrong. model is : one touch E-D011
     
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    do you hear the drive spinning? drive might be alright but enclosure might not be.
     
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    I heard some clicking once, other than that no noise at all when the blue light is on.
     
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    toss up whether it is the drive or the enclosure has gone bad. try the drive without the enclosure internally on a tower if the drive is a 3.5" version.
     
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    "Old" is a full-size five-inch 10 MB drive. I think I still have one around here someplace. :)

    Dick
     
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