External drive troubles

Dear friends
I got an external case branded as SPQ IPS series. It is Firewire 400, 800, USB2 and eSATA compatible with a 1.5TB WD green caviar that I installed and many troubles with it. I checked the case with all the ports except the eSATA port. The unit should be bootable but sometimes wont boot or open the programs. After doing some test with the Caviar with successs as one internal unit, I went back to the store and changed the case for a new one but the same problems persist.
In this moment I've no idea what to do, but I am totally disillusioned with this gadget. Could you help me?
TIA

Well - although both drives work through the supplied red IDE cable I have to say the slave drops to UDMA2
I think this probably slows the master, even though it test out for UDMA5....
So I am starting to think I will do a little research and find a supplier of high quality cables and try out with one of those - I will post back here, but that might not be for a week or so.
About my external Maxtor one touch drive - still no joy there, and I am HIGHLY reluctant to reformat - that 300GB drive has backups of all FIVE machines networked in this house and I do not fancy burning them to DVD either....
But I could try creating a small test partition on there - would that help? I cannot see how it is going to, but I guess I have to try everything I can. I have still had no reply to my email to MSI support, does anyone else here get any joy out of support emails?

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Couple of questions:
What format is the external drive?
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is there anyway to transfer direct to the hard-drive?
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