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I have this small Sata HDD and I bought an enclosure for it, the asmedia as2105 usb device. Now, my computer does detect the enclosure, but not the disk in it. I've tried other disks too, but no joy. At the moment, I've no other means of testing these disks in other ways like a desktop.
I would format this hdd, except, I can't because the disk is invisible.
How can I fix this? so I can see the disk and format it. And use it.
Device Manager Disk Management I've checked out the similar questions, but I've done all that but still no luck
External hard disk can be detected but cannot be accessed
Also, there were no real solutions to these questions there, at least none that I could see.
So, what's really annoying is that apparently the computer sees the drive in Device Manager, Disk Management and via DISKPART, but not via Windows Explorer. To be precise: the computer does see the enclosure, but not the HDD.
= I let windows look for updates to the drivers for the enclosure. I also found stand alone drivers for it, but I don't know if I should use those, viruses etc. It has some virus: virustotal . com/en/file/2097cfcef072f6b12370139d94a171073df2255807c01ad6d747f0d24a190aa6/analysis/
= I tried adding a device via windows 10 itself, but again, no joy.
I've now read this one too: Hard drive (SATA) making trouble when connecting via USB
it sounds similar to my problem, and yes, I suspect diskdeath too but it seems unlikely.
GwenKillerby
Posted 2016-07-12T23:10:24.727
Reputation: 286
Is the drive connected completely inside the enclosure? I've had enclosures that had a bit of wiggle room and the drive slipped outta the connectors. – Michael Frank – 2016-07-12T23:29:47.717
is this the drive you took out of your Cisco recorder? If so, that would have been useful information, as well as a linking those questions... – Keltari – 2016-07-12T23:32:44.273
>Yes, it's almost as if the drive not connected completely inside the enclosure, but I've looked and looked and there is no physical better way of connecting it. It's almost as if it needs a jumper on the drive itself to switch it on, except I thought SATA drives don't use jumpers
Yes it's the Cisco drive, imho, that's not all that relevant, but sure, now you know. – GwenKillerby – 2016-07-13T00:21:44.490
Show us a screenshot of Disk Management. – LawrenceC – 2016-07-13T00:50:28.623
The problem is now half solved, I went to a store and they formatted the drive for me, literally took one minute, and now I can see the drive. The mystery remains why I couldn't see the drive so that I too, could format it. – GwenKillerby – 2016-07-20T18:08:43.993