Hello, I have a digitech model XC4690 docking station, I am trying, well attempting to format a faulty HDD which came out of a laptop. As I am typing this the internal HDD is in the dock and the power is on, it is a separate power source and is plugged in via usb.
What I'm wanting to do is format the HDD as it is just out of warranty and its GB seagate momentus. Is there any drivers I can download to pick up the docking station as I have looked in my computer, as well as disk management and its only picking up my DVD burner and the desktop HDD. Hard drive docking stations, just like hard drive enclosures, don't need drivers on Windows XP or later. It's the hard drive that's in it, and the usb port it's plugged into which needs drivers, but they are already built in to Windows XP and later versions.
Aug 20, 2012 - The Plugable USB 3.0 SATA Hard Drive Docking Station is a. Becuase the drivers are included in all major operating systems it's as simple as. CDD3000 is a USB 3.0 dual-SATA 2.0 hard drive docking station. It supports simultaneous use of two 2.5” or 3.5” SATA hard disks for both data read and data write. It is also backward compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. It features One Touch Cloning, which clones your hard drive with touch of a button.
(Windows XP, however, needs Service Pack 1 or higher for USB 2.0 support). Because the actual docking station itself doesn't need a driver, manufacturers don't supply one. Try the docking station and drive on a different PC if possible. If still no joy, the docking station may be faulty.
When you connect the docking station to a PC, and with a drive inserted into it, you should hear the drive spin up as soon as you supply power to it. No spin up means either a faulty drive, faulty dock, or no power getting to it.
G'day to all, I recently bought a new PC with win 10 on board. I now find that I want to retrieve some data from my old PC which is unserviceable. I purchased a 22 pin sata to usb cable. When plugged in I find the Device manager will not find this new drive. The led's on the cable light up but the drive is not running. The old HDD is a 3.5' unit which ran on win 7. The old drive is a Samsung HD502HJ/b (part No.) and is in working condition.
I am wondering if it requires a driver of its own? Or something a more diverse problem like a usb 2.0 or 3.0 conflict, maybe.
I am quite elderly and would appreciate any help from a kind person willing to help. Thanking you in anticipation, MaurieT. Welcome to the Ten Forums!
As I understand you bought a USB to Sate type cable that lights up but the drive doesn't do anything? Did you connect any power cable like the 12v 15pin Sata power connector from an external power supply for example? If you only connected a data conversion cable the drive itself isn't powered up in order to be detected properly. You have two options for seeing this solved quickly. You can either buy a regular self contained external enclosure powered directly by usb or having a separate ac adapter or see the drive installed internally on the new machine where you then simply connect a data cable you added in along with using one of the connectors from the power supply.
Once the drive is receiving power your next step will be to right click on the Start button to select the 'Disk Management' option. Once the screen for that finishes loading up you go upto the menu bar and click on the 'Actions' optoin to select the 'rescan disks' if not finding the new volume displayed.
This will refresh the total number of drives shown where you then need to see the new drive initialized. You may have to click on the square block at the left side next to the drive's volume while simply right clicking on it to use the 'Change drive letter' option should be enough for that. Since optical drives usually take up the D and E drive letters and second OS drives like F and G you can easily assign H often used by flash drives or virtual cd rom drives, J or K are good since those are rarely taken! I agree this most likely is a problem with power supply. 