Newbie question: External HDD

[BoredCollie]

I have just bought a new external HDD (to make a clone of my C-drive, so that I don’t have the horrors of last year, in which the heat wave made all my HDD’s pop one by one). I pu it i the caddy. Before I switch on the caddy, the light on the transformer is on solid, but when I switch it on, it blinks slowly until I switch it off again. There is no noise or vibration coming from the HDD. Is this a problem with the (entirely new!) HDD or from the caddy (which I haven’t used for a long time)? Might it be a jumper issue? With thanks in advance.

[PeterOz]

Some make and model numbers of the parts would be of assistance.

[Bruce]

can you take the external caddy out of the equation, just test the new HDD, by putting the drive directly into the PC, assuming it’s a desktop, but we don’t even know that.

[Bruce]

@BoredCollie - any news?

[Bruce]

closing - no activity - PM any staff member if you would like this re-opened.