Ok so I have one Western Digital 1.5TB Caviar Green WD15EADS (possibly this is also needed for newer 2.0TB Caviar Green drives as well) hard drive wtih 32MB cache sitting here that has been giving me problems ever since I tried using it in an external SATA to USB / eSATA bay.
All you have to do to get Windows to recognize the drive is the following:
Assuming everything is disconnected and the drive is not plugged in,
1) Plug in the 12V power to the Thermaltake BlacX (Rosewill rebadged the same dock so this applies to the Rosewill product as well)
2) Plug the WD15EADS 1.5TB hard drive in the external dock / bay
3) Power on the external dock and wait for the drive to completely spin up
4) Plug in the USB 2.0 cable or the eSATA cable from the PC to the external dock
Windows will now recognize the drive and you will see it displayed as adding a new device in your start menu bar.
Open Windows Explorer to view your files or open Disk Management to format the drive if it needs to be formatted.
The reason why you have to go through all of this is because the way the firmware is designed on the newer WD15EADS, the drive has a timing issue with some external enclosures.
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