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eSATA and Windows 7 makes me e-SAD-A

MarvellousMMarvellousM United StatesRegistered User regular
edited January 2010 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
I got one of these and put it inside one of these. However Windows 7 (Home Premium) will not recognize this drive when its connected via eSATA. USB works fine because I was able to format the drive without issue and do file transfers but eSATA does nothing. I checked the BIOS and it is recognized in there under the eSATA connection and appears to be functioning just fine. Does anybody know why Windows 7 won't acknowledge this thing's existence? Is there some wacky driver download I need to find? Thanks in advance!

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Where does the eSATA hook into? Is it a raid card? Is it a connector on the back of the motherboard?

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  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose 83 Blue Ridge Protects the Holy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Do you have the up-to-date W7 drivers for your mobo/eSATA card?

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  • MarvellousMMarvellousM United StatesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    bowen wrote: »
    Where does the eSATA hook into? Is it a raid card? Is it a connector on the back of the motherboard?
    Its going into my motherboard.
    Do you have the up-to-date W7 drivers for your mobo/eSATA card?
    That's the one thing I didn't check. I'll have to figure that out later when I get home.

    Thanks for the responses so far

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'd wager that it's the motherboard drivers. However, it may not just be initialized (Does windows 7 need to do that?)

    Right click on My Computer-> Manage

    Click Disk Management on the right side

    Find your possible hard disk on the bottom panel (has a whole list of partitions and physical drives)

    Right click on it and there's an option to activate or something along those lines. (I'm sure Windows 7 has added more features since I last did it in Win2000)

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I have eSata on my Dell laptop, and I got the most recent drivers for it when I upgraded to Win7. It immediately recognizes my drives when they are plugged in, so it's probably a driver missing and Microsoft doesn't have an appropriate one in their online database.

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  • GlitchGlitch Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    are you powering it correctly when on eSATA? my eSATA HDD has a USB Y-cable that needs both USB-A ends plugged in to operate over USB, but just a red one that is power-only for eSATA transfers. eSATA transfer rates are so money.

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  • MarvellousMMarvellousM United StatesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Glitch wrote: »
    are you powering it correctly when on eSATA? my eSATA HDD has a USB Y-cable that needs both USB-A ends plugged in to operate over USB, but just a red one that is power-only for eSATA transfers. eSATA transfer rates are so money.
    It has its own AC adapter, plus it shows up in the BIOS so it has to be Windows. I think I have located the correct drivers so I'll be trying those out shortly.

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  • MarvellousMMarvellousM United StatesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Well I found the drivers, tooled around in Device Manager for a couple of minutes and now I have wonderful eSATA speeds. Many thanks for the help! :)

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    MarvellousM wrote: »
    Well I found the drivers, tooled around in Device Manager for a couple of minutes and now I have wonderful eSATA speeds. Many thanks for the help! :)

    Glad it's working! Going from USB2.0 to eSATA makes me cringe when I use my secondary external that is USB only. I'm glad to see USB3.0 is catching up though.

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