what can you do in hard drive docking station
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| 1 | I have and external USB hard drive docking station, just wondering if you can also use those to diagnose and repair faults on problematic hard drivers ( Ie remove them form the their device and connect it to another computer ).. in this case deleting the existing hardware drivers so that we can put back in its machine and have it reboot and have it recognize every thing again? pandana - 2021-10-21 16:41:00 |
| 2 | pandana wrote: The drivers, if one is required, are on the computer rather than the hard drive. The hard drive contains firmware that is never updated (to my knowledge) so if it's toast, it's toast. gyrogearloose - 2021-10-21 17:33:00 |
| 3 | all of that and more... I often use them for running malware scans and disk checks, data recovery etc You don't normally need to muck around removing drivers though, just plug them in and go... It is also often easier and desirable to work on the drives when they are not handicapped with the load of running a Windows OS, for example if the drive is buggered with bad sectors or other problem etc A downside is badly buggered drives can cause the dock and/or usb controller to choke up and stop responding - in which case the drive needs to be connected directly by sata interface to work on it, or at least to see if it works long enough to be able to do something with the drive... king1 - 2021-10-21 17:37:00 |
| 4 | king1 wrote:
interesting your comment re malware, so do you need any kind of protection for the pc that you have connected to the hard disk dock - if your running drives potentially infected with malware etc.. or is the fact that its running via a usb connection mean its all good ( ie they were designed to run crazy on a pc.. not via a usb connection.. ( i hear of people talking about sandboxes.. etc.. ? ) Edited by pandana at 6:46 pm, Thu 21 Oct pandana - 2021-10-21 18:45:00 |
| 5 | pandana wrote: you would probably want to be more cautious (as in, don't do it) if you are using your main device for this - I have a couple of spare PCs for this purpose, so if it picks up a virus it could just be reinstalled, never happened but just in case Edited by king1 at 7:18 pm, Thu 21 Oct king1 - 2021-10-21 19:07:00 |
| 6 | pandana wrote:
Meh - just run a system image or clone your operating drive to a spare before you start putting it in potential danger. nice_lady - 2021-10-21 20:05:00 |
