- Mar 2, 2017
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I bought a Sabrent external SATA drive dock and really like it. At one point I needed to add more memory for my Xbox so I moved it to the console and stuck a HDD in it so I could store more games.
Then my Plex drive started to show errors so I needed to replace it. Because the external dock was so convenient, I wanted to use it to manage my Plex drive. So I moved the dock connected to my Xbox to my PC, formatted and configured the replacement drive, and copied all my movies from the failing drive to the new docked drive. I also ordered another Sabrent dock, but with two bays thinking that when the new dock showed up, I would move the plex drive to the new dock and put the old dock back with the xbox.
When the new dock arrived I wired it to my PC, put the Plex HDD in, and the drive never showed up. I went into Disk Manager and saw the drive but it showed it as being unformatted. I unplugged the new dock, plugged the old dock back in, put in the Plex drive and it showed up without any issues.
Why is that? I was hoping I could use the docks to quickly browse my collection of old drives, but every time I plug a drive in it shows up as needing to formatted, unless the drive was first formatted using that specific dock.
Then my Plex drive started to show errors so I needed to replace it. Because the external dock was so convenient, I wanted to use it to manage my Plex drive. So I moved the dock connected to my Xbox to my PC, formatted and configured the replacement drive, and copied all my movies from the failing drive to the new docked drive. I also ordered another Sabrent dock, but with two bays thinking that when the new dock showed up, I would move the plex drive to the new dock and put the old dock back with the xbox.
When the new dock arrived I wired it to my PC, put the Plex HDD in, and the drive never showed up. I went into Disk Manager and saw the drive but it showed it as being unformatted. I unplugged the new dock, plugged the old dock back in, put in the Plex drive and it showed up without any issues.
Why is that? I was hoping I could use the docks to quickly browse my collection of old drives, but every time I plug a drive in it shows up as needing to formatted, unless the drive was first formatted using that specific dock.
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