HID device

[Lil' Dave]

Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure. XP found
the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth. However, its found one thing that
I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is. The errant
unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID" Yes, the hard drive is a Western
Digital. The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire.

I even went as far as doing a clean XP install. Same problem.

Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again. Next
time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID device.

 

[Paul]

Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure. XP found
the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth. However, its found one thing that
I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is. The errant
unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID" Yes, the hard drive is a Western
Digital. The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire.

I even went as far as doing a clean XP install. Same problem.

Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again. Next
time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID device.

You didn't mention the model number.

A guess would be, there is a button on the case of the drive. It
does something. The drive comes with bundled software. Apparently
the software is installed via Autoplay when the drive is plugged
in. If you format the drive, it wipes your only copy of that
software.

The HID driver could be related to the backup software in some
way. Maybe if the backup software is allowed to install, it
pops in the HID driver as well. Part of a "one touch"
backup strategy or something...

All guesses,
Paul

 

[Lil' Dave]

You didn't mention the model number.

A guess would be, there is a button on the case of the drive. It
does something. The drive comes with bundled software. Apparently
the software is installed via Autoplay when the drive is plugged
in. If you format the drive, it wipes your only copy of that
software.

The HID driver could be related to the backup software in some
way. Maybe if the backup software is allowed to install, it
pops in the HID driver as well. Part of a "one touch"
backup strategy or something...

All guesses,
Paul

Its an Irocks external case. There is optional use backup software for it.
Says it works with USB2. Maybe they just neglected to say firewire...
The only installation software on the accompanying CD is for 98SE, remainder
OSes with MS is purely plug/play.
Will see if I can track down that optional use software now.