![]() ![]() ![]() Plugable USB SATA docks do not support sector emulation for XP. But this requires that drives initialized and formatted in a special way, and NOT be used with other SATA controllers in desktop PC’s or other drive docking stations, unless those units also have a matching firmware version and support for this feature. “Some docks have a non-standard sector emulation feature that enables using capacities above 2TB on Windows XP 32 bit. See our Understanding Large SATA Drive Compatibility blog post for more details. This can be in the form of a drive sold intentionally to protect against data theft or unintentionally where what consumers believe are standard hard drives from companies such as Western Digital (the most commonly found in our experience) are written to using a form of proprietary hardware encryption which prevents the drive from being read in any enclosure except for the one the drive shipped with. All of the above scenarios from our Internal Hard Drives list apply.Here are some common scenarios with for recovering data from an external drive in our dock: Or sometimes a drive that was used in another dock is inserted into ours or vice versa. The hard drive inside the failed enclosure is removed and the ‘bare’ drive is inserted into our hard drive docking station to attempt recovery. A typical scenario is the power adapter or USB port on an external drive has failed. Hard drives extracted from external enclosures or drives used in other docking stations will have many of the same potential issues that we just talked about for internal drives but do introduce other new scenarios. Specialized backup and partition software such as Norton GoBack and some versions of Acronis can cause issues and should be removed/disabled if possible prior to data recovery.Whole disk software based encryption such as Microsoft BitLocker / EFS, TrueCrypt, and others.A drive from a RAID1 array is the only kind of RAID drive our docking station can potentially recover data from. Drive is part of a RAID array like RAID0, RAID10, RAID5, or RAID6.For example, Windows systems cannot natively access data from Mac or Linux/Unix formatted drives, we’ll touch more on this later. Incompatible filesystem(s) with the host data recovery computer. ![]() Partition / filesystem damage from improper shutdowns, viruses, etc.Other factors can also be present but are usually less likely such as intermittent electronics on the circuit board, failing drive bearings, etc. This can lead to data corruption making data recovery extremely difficult or impossible. HDDs and SSDs often fail slowly, most commonly encountering what is known as bad sectors. This is fairly self explanatory, the drive itself has mechanically or electronically failed causing the drive to not be detected by our dock. Here are some common trouble scenarios for recovering data from an internal drive in our dock: Assuming for the moment that the hard drive in question hasn’t failed completely and is not part of a RAID array, chances are our dock should be able to help access data off the drive. There are many factors that can cause data to be inaccessible. With that being said there are always scenarios where this may not be true. If you’re able to remove the drive from the computer to insert into our dock, you’re on your way to accessing the data. Our hard drive docking stations are quite useful for recovering data from a desktop or laptop computer because they support both 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD). If you are trying to set up a new blank hard drive and are encountering issues, please see this post here. The most important thing to keep in mind is that data recovery is often best left to trained technicians and anything you do to recover data on your own could make recovering the data impossible, even for a data recovery specialist. They also apply to hard disks that are installed inside your computer and potentially other docking stations/enclosures/adapters. The following steps apply to our USBC-SATA-V, USB3-SATA-UASP1, USB3-SATA-U3, and our entire Plugable Storage System lineup. Because one of the most common reasons for buying a Plugable hard drive docking station is to recover data off of a SATA hard drive from another computer or external hard drive enclosure we wanted to talk about some issues our customers frequently experience. ![]()
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