USB 3 cable/enclosure +WD is recognized by Win 7: installing the device driver and supplying power. But the drive is not seen in my computer.??
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Have no clue. I use Mac 85% of the time. I use Windows 7 about once a week through Parallels. Not that familiar with using Windows on the subject of finding drivers. Sorry.
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Go to the main menu, open the "Administrative Tools" application. Under Storage, select the Disk Managment item. This will bring up a list of all your attached drives. If the drive is in fact seen by your computer but does not have a valid partition or other problem you will be able to see it here. It could be that the drive needs to be formatted or reformatted.
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You don;t say what your OS is, so I will assume Windows 7. Once you have installed the drive into the case, either in a floppy drive slot or with the extra brackets that are available, into a 3.5" drive slot, attach the floppy power able to the white power adapter and the floppy cable to the data port, then to the floppy port on the motherboard. Windows 7 should find the drivers, but if not, go to iomega.com and download the appropriate drivers. It should be very straight forward.
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Please make sure that the USB setup is turned on. This is located in storage of setup.
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I have two installed under Win7 with a USB 3.0 connection. They are both working fine after 3 months.
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When I plugged it into my laptop with Windows 7, it recognized it. I put a blank CD in the drive and I was then able to use it.
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I just checked www.wdc.com Typed in Serial Number from drive I received. Answer from WD: "The warranty for this product has expired. The product is not eligible for replacement. If you need technical assistance, please send us email." So either Seller is warranting this drive OR NO ONE IS!!! I, for one, would like to hear from the seller on this matter!
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It's a typo on Amazon. The drive is SATA III. Hardly any drive are SATA III anymore. Click here -> http://www.wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=1049&language;=1
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The drive comes with a USB3 cable. No thunderbolt connection on the unit-only USB.
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Windows found and self-installed the driver. I don't know of any other sources if yours does not automatically install itself when connecting your device to a computer with Windows 7.
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hmmm good question...mine just keeps pluggin along. Since I got this used from some one who clearly could not get it going with the cryptic instructions...I got it for steal (price of the drives).
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Just received this 1/07/16 and it now comes with a different cable than is shown in the photo. My cable is a standard USB 3.0 (blue rectangular) male on one end and a "micro" USB 3.0 at the other end which connects to the hard drive enclosure as can be seen in the photo. They seem to has stopped shipping the Y shaped cord. There is no power adapter or cord to plug into the power port of the enclosure. I was not able to get my computer Windows 7 or Windows 8 to recognize the drive. It shows up under devices but, Windows does not assign it a drive letter or recognize it as a usable storage device. Just received this 1/07/16 and it now comes with a different cable than is shown in the photo. My cable is a standard USB 3.0 (blue rectangular) male on one end and a "micro" USB 3.0 at the other end which connects to the hard drive enclosure as can be seen in the photo. They seem to has stopped shipping the Y shaped cord. There is no power adapter or cord to plug into the power port of the enclosure. I was not able to get my computer Windows 7 or Windows 8 to recognize the drive. It shows up under devices but, Windows does not assign it a drive letter or recognize it as a usable... » Read More Just received this 1/07/16 and it now comes with a different cable than is shown in the photo. My cable is a standard USB 3.0 (blue rectangular) male on one end and a "micro" USB 3.0 at the other end which connects to the hard drive enclosure as can be seen in the photo. They seem to has stopped shipping the Y shaped cord. There is no power adapter or cord to plug into the power port of the enclosure. I was not able to get my computer Windows 7 or Windows 8 to recognize the drive. It shows up under devices but, Windows does not assign it a drive letter or recognize it as a usable storage device. « Show Less
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Plug & play... A power/sata plug are built onto a small board. you plug it into the drive then slide them into the case add a usb, bam.... your done
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An adapter is not supplied. I have no problem with the 3.0 USB connection. External power adapter port is available. Very happy with this drive.
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I had a similar problem on Windows 7 after using a USB portable drive on a trip with my XP laptop. I plugged it into my Win7 desktop and the device was recognized, but did not come up with a drive letter. Using the control panel disk manager, I found and error message that it was offline because of some kind of a resource conflict with another drive. I was able to correct the problem by using a right click in the disk manager to put it online. I think this is a Win7 bug, not a problem with the drive.
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I don't understand your question. Are you saying that you lost the instructions for the Rosewill external drive? If you have placed the hard drive into the enclosure correctly and Windows 7 is not recognizing the drive then I ask "How is the drive connected to your machine"? If it is eSATA then I know that some motherboards seem to have a problem. The best solution is to use USB and there should be no complications. Please clarify!
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Drive won't mount. A new WD Caviar 1TB HD goes into a Mac G5 just fine, and accepts the SATA power cable, but has some trouble adjusting to the Mac's right-angle data cable. But even if I prop the drive up enough to accept the data cable, the drive doesn't show up on the desktop. Nor in System Profiler or Disk Utilities. haifischHaifischRH308887haifisch
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Installed Windows 7 64 and usb 3 is working. Make sure all windows updates are installed.