Stuck on "Powering up....."

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I hope someone can help with some ideas or suggestions.
My TCD648250B got the yellow screen last week and my first inclination was that the drive went bad. t removed the drive and tried testing but couldn't even get it to spin. I went out and I bought a WD 1TB green drive and also downloaded instant cake from dvrupgrade.com. I created the new drive and I can see 16 new partitions but when I installed it if back in the box it goes nowhere. Started thinking that the power supply went bad but I was able to test the power going to the hard drive and it appears to be correct at 12V and 5V.
So now I am not sure what to do next. Is it possible that the drive is not compatible? The original drive was also a WD 250GB. I off tried puting the old drive in a zip-lock bag and put it in freezer for about half an hour, I was able to get it to run and even saw the partitions but unfortunately not long enough to copy the data from it.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

Thanks, I will try that.