Question 1

i cant find the hard drive i inserted in the docking station why? isnt this compatible with windows 10?

Accepted Answer

I am running windows 10 and it works fine.  I have plugged many different drives into mine and have even used it to mirror a failing drive.  Make sure you have it plugged into a USB 3.0 port usually they are blue, make sure power is plugged in and make sure the switch is turned on.  If this doesn't work for you, you might have a DOA drive bay.

Question 2

I'm not sure I understand why in the comments someone stated you cannot copy or clone a drive with two hard drives of identical size and capacity. I'm cloning a 500gb drive to replace a corrupted one. Are you stating that I cannot use this device to clone another 500GB same make, model and capacity?  It also states in the comments it doesn't work with Windows 10 and in the specs Windows 10 isn't listed? Yet on this screen and this page requirements says Windows 10? What gives?

Accepted Answer

I know this is 4 years later, but all drives even those that are from the same manufacturer and have the same stated size, have the exact same size, one may have slightly higher capacity than the other.  If drive "A" has more capacity than drive "B", then you can't copy drive "A" to drive "B" but you can copy drive "B" to drive "A".    In standalone mode, the larger capacity drive can only be the "Target" drive.
If you want to copy a larger drive to a smaller drive and if the larger drives contents are not more than the size of the smaller drive, then you can use drive/partition copying software like linux based "Parted Magic" or true MSDOS (Not CMD in Windows or even FreeDOS) based "Image for DOS" that will allow you to resize the needed partitions down to fit the new target drive and copy the partitions individually.

Question 3

Will it work with Windows 10?

Accepted Answer

Thanks for sharing this. It's good, yet terribly disappointing, to know this ahead of time. I'd bought it specifically to clone over people's drives from hdd to ssd and never got a chamber to
Open it. I would have been cloning in a Mac environment though, so I wonder if that would have avoided the issues?

Question 4

My item just arrived today. It came with a c-c cord that doesn't fit in my computer. Do I need to buy a blue 3.0 A-A accessory cord and/or some kind of adapter to connect their cord to use in the USB 3.0 port on my laptop?

Accepted Answer

Yes that is correct... you will have to purchase the correct cable.

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