With due respect, It's not looking good for that drive. Most of the solutions are non-ideal and the part you're looking at won't do a bit of good. If you have the missing part, you may be able to rig ...

MSI motherboards use light-emitting diodes to report the status of the computer. Most computers have an LED for the power and an LED for the hard drive. If the PC is turned on, the power LED glows ...

Did you try flipping the lead around? I almost always get this and the floppy ribbon cable backwards on the first try.

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to know when my hard drive is active. That’s partly so I know when Windows has more or less finished its boot activity (which, on one aging machine, takes 7-8 minutes ...

Great for PCs that lack a hard-drive LED, free utility TrayStatus can also display the status of various keyboard keys. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features ...