Peripherals Will 3.5" sata enclosure work with Windows 8?

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Hi all, I have a Western Digital essential 'my book' 500GB hdd. which recently 'broke' (power problem). So, I've removed the hdd from the case and am now looking for 3.5" sata enclosure to connect it to my laptop with. Something like this below:

3.5 SATA to USB HD Hard Disk Drive Enclosure Caddy Case | eBay

However non of the items I am finding on ebay and/or Amazon appear to be compatibale with Windows 8.

I don't really understand how something can be compatible with W7 but not W8. I have emailed the sellers and they are all confirming "not compatible with W8". Surely this is just inaccurate info? Surely W8 will pick the the hdd up as a USB external drive?

And ideas guys?

Thanks for reading!
 
its to do with the drivers supplied with the unit
the unit should be picked up by windows 8 but its where windows 8 can sort the driver for it
does your router have a usb port and if so can you not plug the drive into that and network share
 
that will be fine with Windows 8. If an external usb drive works with Win7 then it will work with Win8.

The only limitations for that enclosure is that its USB2 instead of USB3 and you MAY have problems with HDD bigger then 2TB.
 
Hi all, I have a Western Digital essential 'my book' 500GB hdd. which recently 'broke' (power problem). So, I've removed the hdd from the case and am now looking for 3.5" sata enclosure to connect it to my laptop with. Something like this below:

3.5 SATA to USB HD Hard Disk Drive Enclosure Caddy Case | eBay

However non of the items I am finding on ebay and/or Amazon appear to be compatibale with Windows 8.

I don't really understand how something can be compatible with W7 but not W8. I have emailed the sellers and they are all confirming "not compatible with W8". Surely this is just inaccurate info? Surely W8 will pick the the hdd up as a USB external drive?

And ideas guys?

Thanks for reading!

Hi, Just had a quick look at the link above for this and that is expensive for what it is, you could pick up an external usb caddy unit from Scan.co.uk for about £12, what makes the above expensive is the power adapter etc that's supplied with this. Am I right in thinking you do not need to provide power for this as it gets this from the USB feed from computer. I have done the same as what you are thinking and run windows 8.1 no problem. Also you get a half metre USB3 lead with the caddy.
 
Yes...it will work just fine with windows 8...it's what they used to refer to as "plug and play"...usb port will pick it up and load drivers as itloads the hard drive (or device).
 
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