Thinkpad S430 - not detecting USB 3.0 external HDD

I've noticed there are a lot of issues reported with usb 3.0 on lenovo laptops. Mines is a little different to the ones I've read so far. 
Its an iomega drive and is usb 3.0, it was working a few months ago but recently decided to stop. I have no idea what could have changed to stop it from working, I use this particular drive infrequently. 
The issue is that I connect the drive t the laptop, it lights up but doesn't get detected at all by windows. so far I've done the following:
- checked the drive letter in device manager
- unisntalled all usb devices from device manager and then rebooted and re-installed
- re-installed the Lenovo USB 3.0 extensible controller drivers
- tried the Intel variant of the USB 3. Extensible hard drive
- tried different ports
- tried another 2430 laptop - it didn't work on that one either!
- tried it on a HP laptop - WORKED FINE
- didabled power management on the usb root device(s)
- plugged it into the laptop whilst watching the device manager doesn't refresh, thinks nothing has been added. 
- scanned for new hardware, nothing comes up
- installed the latest bios
- set USB 3.0 mode to 'enabled' in the bios no difference. 
- set USB 3.0 mode to 'disabled' no difference
- tried another USB drive (2.0) WORKED FINE
-checked to see if it is recognized on boot - it is not. 
And most likely other stuff which I've forgotten. Really is quite frustrating, have had two major issues with this laptop (HDD died completely not too long ago, rendering my data lost) and now this. 
I think the above narrows it down to it being an issue with reading USB 3.0 drives, unfortunately no one else I know uses USB 3.0 drives so can't test another...
Can anyone suggest something I've missed?
Thanks in advance for any pointers. 

Hello,
I am not familiar witheither  the ThinkPad S430 or the Iomega external USB 3.0 hard disk drive, but I wonder if the latter might not be receiving enough power over the USB cable.  Does the Iomega drive have an option to take power from an external AC adapter or second USB port?  If so, try providiing additional power and see if that allows the drive to be recognized when attached to the ThinkPad S430.
Regards,
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