pikingrin
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My old XP system crapped out so I recently upgraded my recording PC. The new comp I got had a slim profile case and no spare bays for adding hard drives (it's also running Win 7). I have 80gb worth of project files, of which not even half are completely done, on an internal hard drive. So I bought this USB3.0 docking station and slapped the old hard drive in so I could access all my files. Only problem is that the computer recognizes that there is a device plugged in to the USB port but not the hard drive that is plugged into it. My research has shown that I may need to initialize the old hard drive to make it to where the new comp recognizes it - which would result in a loss of all of my data. I've also seen people making the external drive into a slave drive for it to be recognized but I have no clue on how to do that - there aren't any switches on the docking station other than the power switch. Anyone know an easy way to make this work?
If I have to initialize the drive, is there any way to save the data off of that hard drive to another external drive before I wipe it clean?
If I have to initialize the drive, is there any way to save the data off of that hard drive to another external drive before I wipe it clean?