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Thread ID: 102811	2009-09-02 08:56:00	Welland SunBright 3.5 HDD Enclosure - eSATA doesnt work	Term_X (560)	Press F1

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806287	2009-09-02 08:56:00	Bought one of these enclosures that has a 1TB HDD Samsung Spinpoint HDD included . Works fine with USB connection . The eSata connection has never worked . Not even a hint of any activity via eSata . Connected the enclosure to my HP Laptop running Windows 7RC and also my desktop, and nothing . Is there a setting somewhere that i need to change in Windows for the eSata connection to be recognized? I'm stumped :(	Term_X (560)
806288	2009-09-02 09:06:00	Doesn't eSATA need an external power supply? Apologies if you're doing this.	nofam (9009)
806289	2009-09-02 10:17:00	Doesn't eSATA need an external power supply? Apologies if you're doing this. If he wasn't using a Power Supply the USB wouldn't work either...:p Anything at all in device manager?(run>devmgmt.msc) Blam	Blam (54)
806290	2009-09-02 10:36:00	You possibly need to go into your BIOS and switch your RAID option on - in my case I set the RAID option to IDE. I then need to ensure that the External disk is powered on when I boot the machine so the BIOS will recognise the disk. Trev	TeejayR (4271)
806291	2009-09-06 02:43:00	Thanks, I'll nosey the bios and check the RAID setting. Cheers	Term_X (560)
806292	2009-09-06 03:07:00	A friend of mine has one of these The eSATA only works if it's the only cable plugged into the drive (not including the power adaptor) If the USB cable is attached (even if it's not connected to the PC) the eSATA won't work. I don't know why	Agent_24 (57)
806293	2009-09-06 04:34:00	A friend of mine has one of these The eSATA only works if it's the only cable plugged into the drive (not including the power adaptor) If the USB cable is attached (even if it's not connected to the PC) the eSATA won't work. I don't know why +1 Also, you need to plug in the drive before you boot the PC up (or reboot) to make eSata come up in Windows.	jwil1 (65)
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