Back of hard drive has no connecters

[Cromewell]

http://picasaweb.google.com/salvatorreferragamo/WeirdHD?feat=directlink#5321842153841823602

In this picture you can see where the drive would normally plug in (that thing on the top right of the green PCB). Since a WD800 is also an older PATA drive it wouldn't connect even if you had the control board for it.

I'm also confident in saying that a Maxtor external drive would never ship with a WD drive inside

I wonder if someone took the 750GB drive out and then returned the external to frys. I don't think frys will help you though since you've had it for over a year and Maxtor/Seagate will likely assume you tampered with it since it's got a WD drive.


If you just want a working external, you can buy a SATA drive and put the enclosure back together.

 

[shirtlessguy]

Sigh... As far as I know, it was new. Mostly because it was such a headache to take it apart. Plus the outside stickers for the barcodes on the external itself wasn't tampered with. ie I ripped them OFF in order to take it apart. So I'm not sure what happened.
I think I'm going to take it to Fry's yet again, and see, since it's technically their fault for selling something like this.

 

[Zatharus]

Good luck with that. Cromewell is right. I doubt Fry's will do much more than apologize. You have had it for a year, and it was a clearance item when you got it. Since you have already taken it apart, you may have a hard time convincing them that you weren't the one that did the swap. It couldn't hurt to try though.