I have a T420 and bought this dive tray, but Windows 7 does not recognize the drive. Do I need configure the system to see it?
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Hi, I have a T510 and bought a Seagate 1tb drive for this tray. I have Windows 7 64bit and did not have to install anything as the operating system identified and installed the tray and hard drive. Hope this helps,
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When you boot the system, make sure it's recognized in the bios before Windows loads. Hit the blue ThinkVantage button during boot, or F1 I believe. Also, I sometimes have issues and have to eject the drive before I boot. Then put it in after Windows has loaded. I wouldn't eject the drive tray while powered up though.
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I have had no trouble with windows8 or ubuntu. I recommend formatting the drive with either Gparted (live cd) or another computer. Once it is formatted in NTFS or some other file system that Windows recognizes then try again. Also double check that the drive is correctly seated in the tray. Other than that I can't help without actually being there. Good luck!
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Hi Bai Jiang, You have go to computer Management to configure this drive. Once you are there, then select Storage and then double click Disk managment. From their you will find the new volume. Go ahead and proceed with creating a new volume. Hopefully this help.
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It should function just as the internal one with the same software, either native Win7 or whatever software you use to read/write. Just select the new drive from Explorer.
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I do not have the 3TB version of the drive so I never ran into the problem which only seems to happen with drives over 2TB. The Microsoft Community site has people with problems with Vista and 7 on one of the pages and the answer is to make sure the motherboard drivers are up to date (particularly Nvidia chipset motherboards) and if that does not do it to try downloading and using a program called "Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 6.0.1".I am not sure if it is entirely applicable to your format problem but making sure drivers are up to date wouldn't hurt anything at least. I do not have the 3TB version of the drive so I never ran into the problem which only seems to happen with drives over 2TB. The Microsoft Community site has people with problems with Vista and 7 on one of the pages and the answer is to make sure the motherboard drivers are up to date (particularly Nvidia chipset motherboards) and if that does not do it to try downloading and using a program called "Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 6.0.1".I am not sure if it is entirely applicable to your format problem but making sure drivers are up to date wouldn't hurt anything... » Read More I do not have the 3TB version of the drive so I never ran into the problem which only seems to happen with drives over 2TB. The Microsoft Community site has people with problems with Vista and 7 on one of the pages and the answer is to make sure the motherboard drivers are up to date (particularly Nvidia chipset motherboards) and if that does not do it to try downloading and using a program called "Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 6.0.1".I am not sure if it is entirely applicable to your format problem but making sure drivers are up to date wouldn't hurt anything at least. « Show Less
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I used a 2TB Seagate drive, and had no trouble recognizing it in Win 7. Both USB and E-SATA worked ok for me. Have you tried both interfaces? Might want to try connecting it to another system as well.
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I bought for something other than a Pc, so I'm not sure. What operating system? I recently had to learn a trick to get my PC to assign the drive. It saw it, but did nothing with it until I took a certain step.
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No it's a blank hard drive. You will need to format to what ever operating system u are using.
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I don't know the answer to either of your questions. It worked perfectly with my UwaTec(ScubaPro) dive computer and Windows 7.
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The utility software? That can be found on the Adata web site. Shouldn't need anything else to make the drive work, as long as you have a SATA port available.
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I left my sad attached to the SATA II port, installed the IO Crest card, and then started up windows 7...it detected the card and I installed the drivers. Shut down the system and moved my SSD to the SATAIII port. When rebooting go into the bios and double check that your boot drive is still correctly set. Mine changed, probably because I have multiple drives. After making sure the correct drive is set as the boot drive, win7 came up fine.
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You have to check with the vendor for exact configuration available. I got one with Win7 Pro 32bit, pre-installed. It came with a knock-off "Win 7 repair CD" and a DVD with a current "system image" for recovery of the operating systemin the event the drive fails.
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Yes, It's the first thing I did. Lenovo has added windows 7 drivers on their website. I removed the factory hard drive and replaced it with a 7200 rpm western digital black. The only issues I have is that the device manager shows 2 unknown usb devices but I can't seem to find any non or under functioning features/components. All in all I'm very pleased, especially with the price as compared to similarly equipped other brands.
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I have a Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2 TB in this enclosure running on windows 7. It shows my drive is connected but I can't see in anywhere in My Computer. What the hell am I doing wrong? Does it support 2 TB? Any advice would be great. Thank you!
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Hard to tell, but if the drive was working fine before putting it in the enclosure, then there's a good chance the enclosure is defective. The quality is pretty bad, unfortunately... Same thing happened to me. I complained and got a replacement. Any chance you can put your drive in a different enclosure, to test it?
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I'm not sure because after purchasing the dock I sent it to our IT specialist and he told me that the drive itself was damaged and the new dock wouldn't have worked anyway. Thanks, and good luck - Gary D.
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I just got this and it does not work, based on the advice here. The docking connector does not even seem to be the right shape for my T420. Please advise.
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I have the 1 Tb drive and went between xp home and win 7 pro 64 bit on 2 machines, never had any issues. Does win xp still recognize the drive?
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Did you buy a diskless model and install a drive in it? Unless you bought a preconfigured model, there is some setup work before you can use the DS. Ricardo's answer only pertains to preconfigured Beyond Cloud models.