Can't access drives in external USB 3 enclosures

Again, that's what these forums are for, no?

correct ,I hope someone with the same issue, comes along , really I do , good luck

Bro67, why are you continuing to harass me in here? You are not contributing to this thread. I came in here asking for advice and I have followed the suggestions offered. Why do you continue to post in here since it's obvious you are not here to help or offer suggestions? Since others are at least trying to be helpful why don't you leave this thread for others to help?

And are you purposely being obtuse? I have already listed several posts ago all the things I've tried, including suggestions by members in here and by the tech rep I spoke with. Why are you pretending I haven't been trying to solve this issue? And who are you to say this thread is over? I came in here asking for help. I wasn't looking for a fight. But thanks for derailing this whole thread.

Also, not every suggestion will work. The point in any thread is to hopefully get suggestions that may work. That doesn't mean every suggestion is a good one. In another thread I was told the best advice is to do a repair install for a few "missing" codec files, when it turned out that was totally unnecessary and the files weren't even missing. Thankfully another poster helped out because if I listened to the first suggestion, I would have gone through an entire repair install and lost all my updates for no reason as it wouldn't have restored the missing files.

I may not fully understand your setup and the different types of drive connections ,so I could be totally off on this suggestion ,the docks are hot swappable , is it possible to try a non working drive in a working case ,or are the connections different ,, and it likely you would have tried this already if it was possible ..I also read on the site something about a reset switch on the back [I need to reread the site to see if I can find what I read ] case if a drive wasn't working .

just found some links on this site, http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=175 ,, to a forum ,http://www.icydockforums.com

and a blog ,http://icydock.blogspot.ca/

hope it helps, but as I read a bit of it I don't thing its a very active forum

assuming the drives plug into the usb3 of the motherboard ,maybe check motherboard maker for a motherboard driver update for win10

Thanks for the suggestions.

I took a look at their forum, and there's practically no activity there. There was no mention of this issue there.

The thing is those drives all work fine if I connect the enclosures via esata. They come right up and work fine. It's only when I connect the enclosure using USB 3.0 that the drives aren't recognized. Per Icy Dock's suggestion in an email I received, I tried starting the enclosure with just 1 drive inside, and it still wasn't recognized over USB 3.0.

When I set up my new PC a few months ago, I installed all the latest drivers, direct from Gigabyte, my motherboard manufacturer. I'll also mention that I have an old USB 2.0 enclosure by another manufacturer and that is instantly recognized in my motherboard's USB 3.0 ports. So the only enclosures that don't work are the Icy Dock enclosures and only when connected via USB 3.0.

There's a warning on the product page but I don't think it applies to me:

"Note: WD Green and WD Red hard drives have a feature called Intellipark. This feature makes the drives automatically park themselves after being idle for 8 seconds. There is a small chance that certain drives may appear offline to the USB host of the MB174U3S-4SB and can cause the USB host to refresh. This could cause the remaining drive(s) to power cycle, interrupting any data transfer and potentially causing data corruption on the drives. We recommend WD Green and WD Red drive users to disable the Intellipark feature to prevent this issue."

I don't have any green or red drives in those enclosures.

They mention the enclosures "Supports UASP function for even faster performance" over USB 3.0. Perhaps that has something to do with my issue? Is there something in the BIOS I could check that may affect USB recognizing external enclosures?

@river, I hate to say anything downbeat but I think you have just got an enclosure that doesn't work. I have a Iomega eGo USB3 drives which works perfectly fine with windows 7, Linux and macOS. They doesn't work with Windows 10 at all.

The reason is simple - in Windows 7 the USB drivers were written by Intel. In 8 and above they are written by Microsoft. In Windows 8 you could install the legacy Windows 7 Intel USB 3 drivers. In 10 you can't and some (not all) USB 3 drives don't work.

You have various options. Use another OS, connect through USB 2.

I just bought a different SATA-USB cable which worked fine for me.