Why is one hard drive recognised by docking station and the other is not?

[keveen]

I have a new Intel NUC pc running Windows 7.

My Samsung SP2004C 3.5 drive works perfectly from my HD docking station but the newer WD Caviar Blue is not recognised. But both are recognised by my old laptop!

I tried the eSATA cable and the USB cable link with the same result.

The NUC has USB 3 ports, not USB 2 but I did try using a USB 2 hub.

Is there a rational reason and anything I can do about it? Or is there a technology demon or gremlin causing these problems. (Problems with USB 3 front ports too!)

 

[Lee-m]

Might be to do with the size of the drives, but you dont give details.

 

[Ratlle]

sorry to introduct myself in your dialog but i have the same problem with a 40 gb wd caviar.So i think it's not the gb's the problem.