Right well ive had one more try at something else on this. ive connected the molex power cable to a sata hard drive, and then the sata cable from the pro2, to the sata hard drive also.
Lo and behold, even though i cannot see this drive in windows. jungleflasher indeed reports that what is attached is a western digital HD. That information has to of come down the sata cable so I can now rule that out as not faulty.
Gotta be the Xbox drive now surely! Ive got a feeling that when the ebay listing for the drive said it was working, they have probably gone off the fact that it powers up, and spins up when required and classed that as "working"
Lo and behold, even though i cannot see this drive in windows. jungleflasher indeed reports that what is attached is a western digital HD. That information has to of come down the sata cable so I can now rule that out as not faulty.
Gotta be the Xbox drive now surely! Ive got a feeling that when the ebay listing for the drive said it was working, they have probably gone off the fact that it powers up, and spins up when required and classed that as "working"