USB device not displaying on My Computer

[Tonny]

I use various devices through my usb drive (external HD, digital camera, cell
phone) and they all show an icon on the bottom right task bar when I connect
them and then usually pop open a window asking what I want to do with the
drive. I recently bought a usb SATA HDD docking station so I can easily
connect internal drives to my computer. The first time I used the drive, it
recognized the new external device trying to connect and eventually revealed
the new hard drive with its letter in My Computer. It is pretty slow trying
to open files off the drive and exploring the drive has frozen explorer a few
times. Now when I connect it, I get the soundbyte that shows something has
been connected and the hardware icon shows on the toolbar, however, no Hard
Drive appears in My Computer. I deleted all usb drivers/controllers off of
the hardware panel and reinstalled them, nothing. My normal external drive
shows up fine, even though this docking station isn't feeding through.
Whenever I plug it to my notebook and power it up, it only slows down my
computer as it probably doesn't know what to do with the new hardware being
added. No drivers came with the docking base and it is recommended as a
plug'n'play for my Windows XP Pro. Since the obvious fix of reinstalling USB
drivers didn't help, is there anything else I can do? Thanks again for the
help!

 

[C.Joseph S. Drayton]

I use various devices through my usb drive (external HD, digital
camera, cell phone) and they all show an icon on the bottom right
task bar when I connect them and then usually pop open a window
asking what I want to do with the drive. I recently bought a usb SATA
HDD docking station so I can easily connect internal drives to my
computer. The first time I used the drive, it recognized the new
external device trying to connect and eventually revealed the new
hard drive with its letter in My Computer. It is pretty slow trying
to open files off the drive and exploring the drive has frozen
explorer a few times. Now when I connect it, I get the soundbyte that
shows something has been connected and the hardware icon shows on the
toolbar, however, no Hard Drive appears in My Computer. I deleted all
usb drivers/controllers off of the hardware panel and reinstalled
them, nothing. My normal external drive shows up fine, even though
this docking station isn't feeding through. Whenever I plug it to my
notebook and power it up, it only slows down my computer as it
probably doesn't know what to do with the new hardware being added.
No drivers came with the docking base and it is recommended as a
plug'n'play for my Windows XP Pro. Since the obvious fix of
reinstalling USB drivers didn't help, is there anything else I can
do? Thanks again for the help!

Are there a large number of files and directories on the external
drive? My 250GB hardidsk has about 325,000 files on it and it takes
about 4 minutes for the drive to show in freeCommander (file mananger I
use). I tried it with Windows explorer with the same result. Once the
drive has been scanned, access to is at about normal USB2.0 speeds.

I use the drive as my primary data backup and no matter what computer I
plug it into, that tends to be the result. What is worse is when I plug
it into a Windows98 machine that has a 'universal USB driver' it can
take up to 9 minutes before the files on the drive are actually
accessible.

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Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

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