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Laptop Won't Identify eSATA external hard drive
Hiya,
I have a 2tb external hard drive (western digital in a star tech enclosure). When I connect it to my laptops built in eSATA port (HP DV7 4050EA) via the eSATA cable, nothing happens. The hard drive does not even appear in computer management/disk management/device manager.
The power supply to the hard drive works fine.
It does however work using the USB connection on the enclosure to a standard USB port on the laptop, just at USB 2.0 speeds rather than eSATA.
Does anyone have any idea on how I can get the hard drive working on the eSATA port?
Thanks