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by: ahhoy July 28, 2010 12:32 PM PDT

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Problem with connecting IDE drive to HDD docking station

by ahhoy - 7/28/10 12:32 PM

Hi,
Just bought an ALL in 1 HDD docking station for Sata/IDE drives. I want get information from a laptop's 2.5' Ide drive. When I connect it, device manager shows it a half of minute, but can't populate volume. Tried it with 2.5' IDE drives, same story. Again I connected a Sata drive which works fine as well as cardreader, usb etc. Finally, connected two 3.5' IDE drives one after another, but the problem remains. I'm using Windows 7 (32 and 64 bits), however tried it on Windows XP pro SP3 with no success again. Any minds?


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Get another brand

by samkh - 7/28/10 4:58 PM

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dock or USB adapter. Some USB-IDE interface chips cannot work when the PC has no IDE drives inside.


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I'll try this

by ahhoy - 7/29/10 5:16 AM

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So if I understand you correctly it should when I connect it to a computer with IDE hard drive inside?


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It should

by samkh - 7/29/10 7:30 AM

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but then again it might not, depending on the IDE controller and OS. Won't hurt you to try but first make sure the IDE drive you put inside is not formatted. Why? You don't want the OS to think it has another drive to write cache files.


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another thought on your problem

by wb2001 - 8/5/10 9:08 PM

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My HP8100CTO (Vista) internal is Sata300. There is an EIDE header, but no drive attached. It has an unused Sata port on the motherboard. I added an ESata rail:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200501&cm_re=esata_adapter-_-12-200-501-_-Product

1) I can connect an external EIDE enclosure to USB.
2) I can connect an external Sata enclosure to USB.
3) I can plug-in an external Sata to the ESata/USB HDD Dock.

The only requirement has been to "reboot" when using #3.


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by Irene7999 - 11/19/10 12:21 AM

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hi...try formatting
Start->Control Panel->Administrator Tools->...I think you should know the rest...

If using the Esata doesn't work, does the USB work?

Its important that which component is the problem one...dock or HDD.

I hear that a unitek dock can use any of several connection types (USB, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, and e-SATA)


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