Good Morning Captain WD
I am ever so appreciative of you and Scott oversighting my blundering. As you have probably guessed, I am not a geek and I am well outside my comfort zone. But I will persevere.
I live in a 230v 50Hz part of the world and bought a USB to SATA connector that was available locally (often a problem!). I thought it would do the job.
The power supply comes from the mains to the AC/DC Adaptor then via a 17 pin plug to the SSD. Then the SSD is connected through a USB cable with white plug (USB 2 ?) into the blue USB 3 socket on the Z1 Workstation.
The Intel SSD is visible as follows:
- BIOS - Visible as "Hard Disk - USB 480 GB"
- DOS - Accessed via command prompt => diskpart => list disk and it appears as "Disk 1, Status=Online, Size=465GB, Free=0GB"
- Device Manager - Disk Drives => Intel SS DSC2BW480H6 USB Device, Device Status = "This device is working properly", Driver = Microsoft 12-6-2006 Version 6.1.7600.16385
- Devices and Printers - Device => USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge => Hardware = Intel SS DSC2BW480H6 USB Device, Driver = Microsoft 12-6-2006 Version 6.1.7600.16385, Device Status = "This device is working properly",
The SSD is not visible in Disk Management. When I hit the "Computer" icon it shows the HDD and DVD-RW drives (always) and any thumbdrive in either of the USB3 sockets. Even though the SSD is plugged into one of the USB sockets it does not appear here.
Guessing, but it seems as if some sort of software command is blocking access to the USB port or not facilitating access. Could it be that apparently elderly Microsoft driver? I guessed that Intel would provide their own driver and I thought that I had downloaded it from their site. To me, this seems strange.
Thanks again
Tom