mmm.....no its not in any box....i was just carrying the bare drive back and forth and plugging the ribbon and then the power plug into it while the computers were still on...and then going to device manager and "scan for new hardware changes" to get it to see it...

i guss i killed it myself.... this may be one of those things that you onley have to do once to learn the lesson...like sticking your finger in a plug...

but how could it have been damaged so badly that it now wont even spin up? and it worked like 5 times before??

did i surge it or somthing by plugging the power cable in while everything was on ??

why exactley did it break???