Magically appearing fictitious drives

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richard

windows 7 home premium

I was working on hooking up my thermaltake blackx box and got it working
finally.
But now I have two additional drives that won't go away.
Both are marked as "removable disk".
These drives were not there before the box was installed.
How can I get rid of them?

Even sfter undocking, and a restart, they remain.

What the heck am I talking about?
A nice little gadget that allows two hard drives to be accessed as an
external drive. Which can be swapped out any time you need to.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1346&ID=1895
 
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Wolf K

windows 7 home premium

I was working on hooking up my thermaltake blackx box and got it working
finally.
But now I have two additional drives that won't go away.
Both are marked as "removable disk".
These drives were not there before the box was installed.
How can I get rid of them?

Even after undocking, and a restart, they remain.

What the heck am I talking about?
A nice little gadget that allows two hard drives to be accessed as an
external drive. Which can be swapped out any time you need to.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1346&ID=1895
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What do you mean by "additional drives"? Do you mean in addition to the
two drives in the Thermaltake box? The drives in the Thermaltake box
should show up as long as it is plugged in or tuned on. If it's
unplugged, they should disappear.

HTH,
Wolf K.
 
R

richard

What do you mean by "additional drives"? Do you mean in addition to the
two drives in the Thermaltake box? The drives in the Thermaltake box
should show up as long as it is plugged in or tuned on. If it's
unplugged, they should disappear.

HTH,
Wolf K.
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The drives marked as "removable disk" are there with the thermaltake box
out of the picture entirely. That means, the USB has been unplugged and the
power to the box is off.

As I recall, when I had this box on another machine using windows 7, the
fictitious drives were not present then.
 
R

richard

windows 7 home premium

I was working on hooking up my thermaltake blackx box and got it working
finally.
But now I have two additional drives that won't go away.
Both are marked as "removable disk".
These drives were not there before the box was installed.
How can I get rid of them?

Even sfter undocking, and a restart, they remain.

What the heck am I talking about?
A nice little gadget that allows two hard drives to be accessed as an
external drive. Which can be swapped out any time you need to.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1346&ID=1895
Click to expand...
Well duhhhhhh.
That was easily fixed. Just go into "disk management" and remove the damn
drive.
 
P

Paul

richard said:
Well duhhhhhh.
That was easily fixed. Just go into "disk management" and remove the damn
drive.
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It's up to the USB adapter chip inside the enclosure, whether it wants
to respond when no drives are connected. If it responds to probes on
the USB bus, and has its serial number read, the OS will conclude
it's the same device (and drives) as the last time.

If the device simply passes along the SATA signals without
modification, the ESATA interface might be slightly more
well behaved (but require an AHCI driver for the storage
controller on the motherboard, for the hot plug detection).

Paul
 
A

Allen Drake

A waste of money when you can accomplish the same thing with a $10
cable.

Perhaps if you didn't waste money on things like that, you'd have the
money you need to build your dome home.
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What cable would that be? So far I use the cradle for by USB3
External drive but I wouldn't mind having another option.

Al.
 
J

J. P. Gilliver (John)

I don't think those cables allow two drives to be addressed as if one.
What cable would that be? So far I use the cradle for by USB3
External drive but I wouldn't mind having another option.

Al.
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This sort of thing: http://goo.gl/L4Gsz (OK, that one's over ten pounds,
but that includes a power supply, lots of cables, and a driver CDlet.
You can probably get just the cable - on the right of that picture, USB
to EIDE/SATA - for a bit less).
 
A

Allen Drake

I don't think those cables allow two drives to be addressed as if one.

This sort of thing: http://goo.gl/L4Gsz (OK, that one's over ten pounds,
but that includes a power supply, lots of cables, and a driver CDlet.
You can probably get just the cable - on the right of that picture, USB
to EIDE/SATA - for a bit less).
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After giving it some thought. Something I should have done before
posting, I googled and found several options. I think I will stick
with the cradle I now have and install USB3 cards in other machines.
 
B

Boris

A USB to SATA cable.
http://www.amazon.com/USB-2-0-SATA-Converter-Cable/dp/B001OOXBDO/ref=sr
_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1332717464&sr=1-7

If you MUST have the pretty box,
http://www.amazon.com/Startech-Docking-Station-3-5-Inch-SATADOCK22UE/dp
/tags-on-product/B001IOPIRM
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I've used this vendor and always received quallity parts. I've ordered
many Vantec external enclosures, and the $18.97 item in the upper left hand
corner of this page.

http://www.xpcgear.com/idesataadapter.html
 
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