04-14-2016, 10:35 AM
Hi
I have replaced the hard drive in my mates laptop with a larger one and fitted the removed hard drive into a USB 3 enclosure.I have done all the usual wiping and reformatting of the drive to NTFS.I placed the files he wanted to back up onto it whilst the drive was still in the docking station connected to my windows 8.1 pro machine before i fitted it into the caddy.
The puzzle is this,When i connect the caddy to my windows 8.1 machine all is well.The caddy is recognised in device manager and shows on the hard disc drives section of the pc where i can access and read the files upon it.But when i connect the caddy to either my or my mates windows 7 machines the caddy is recognised in device manager but will not show on the hard disc drive section of the pc so that the files can be read.Although the caddy is USB 3 it does say it is backwards compatible to both USB 1+2 i am also using the connection lead supplied with the caddy. This has me completely discombobulted.Has anyone got a solution to this please.
I have replaced the hard drive in my mates laptop with a larger one and fitted the removed hard drive into a USB 3 enclosure.I have done all the usual wiping and reformatting of the drive to NTFS.I placed the files he wanted to back up onto it whilst the drive was still in the docking station connected to my windows 8.1 pro machine before i fitted it into the caddy.
The puzzle is this,When i connect the caddy to my windows 8.1 machine all is well.The caddy is recognised in device manager and shows on the hard disc drives section of the pc where i can access and read the files upon it.But when i connect the caddy to either my or my mates windows 7 machines the caddy is recognised in device manager but will not show on the hard disc drive section of the pc so that the files can be read.Although the caddy is USB 3 it does say it is backwards compatible to both USB 1+2 i am also using the connection lead supplied with the caddy. This has me completely discombobulted.Has anyone got a solution to this please.