HID device

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure. XP found

the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth. However, its found one thing that

I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is. The errant

unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID" Yes, the hard drive is a Western

Digital. The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire.

 

I even went as far as doing a clean XP install. Same problem.

 

Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again. Next

time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID device.

--

Dave

[Guest Paul]

Re: HID device

 

Lil' Dave wrote:

> Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure. XP found

> the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth. However, its found one thing that

> I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is. The errant

> unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID" Yes, the hard drive is a Western

> Digital. The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire.

>

> I even went as far as doing a clean XP install. Same problem.

>

> Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again. Next

> time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID device.

 

You didn't mention the model number.

 

A guess would be, there is a button on the case of the drive. It

does something. The drive comes with bundled software. Apparently

the software is installed via Autoplay when the drive is plugged

in. If you format the drive, it wipes your only copy of that

software.

 

The HID driver could be related to the backup software in some

way. Maybe if the backup software is allowed to install, it

pops in the HID driver as well. Part of a "one touch"

backup strategy or something...

 

All guesses,

Paul

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: HID device

 

"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message

news:g8dv6t$u55$1@registered.motzarella.org...

> Lil' Dave wrote:

>> Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure. XP found

>> the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth. However, its found one thing

>> that I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is. The

>> errant unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID" Yes, the hard drive is a

>> Western Digital. The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire.

>>

>> I even went as far as doing a clean XP install. Same problem.

>>

>> Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again. Next

>> time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID

>> device.

>

> You didn't mention the model number.

>

> A guess would be, there is a button on the case of the drive. It

> does something. The drive comes with bundled software. Apparently

> the software is installed via Autoplay when the drive is plugged

> in. If you format the drive, it wipes your only copy of that

> software.

>

> The HID driver could be related to the backup software in some

> way. Maybe if the backup software is allowed to install, it

> pops in the HID driver as well. Part of a "one touch"

> backup strategy or something...

>

> All guesses,

> Paul

 

Its an Irocks external case. There is optional use backup software for it.

Says it works with USB2. Maybe they just neglected to say firewire...

The only installation software on the accompanying CD is for 98SE, remainder

OSes with MS is purely plug/play.

Will see if I can track down that optional use software now.

--

Dave

[Guest smlunatick]

Re: HID device

 

On Aug 19, 9:41 am, "Lil' Dave" <spamyours...@virus.net> wrote:

> "Paul" <nos...@needed.com> wrote in message

>

> news:g8dv6t$u55$1@registered.motzarella.org...

>

>

>

> > Lil' Dave wrote:

> >> Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure.  XP found

> >> the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth.  However, its found one thing

> >> that I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is.  The

> >> errant unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID"  Yes, the hard drive is a

> >> Western Digital.  The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire.

>

> >> I even went as far as doing a clean XP install.  Same problem.

>

> >> Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again.  Next

> >> time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID

> >> device.

>

> > You didn't mention the model number.

>

> > A guess would be, there is a button on the case of the drive. It

> > does something. The drive comes with bundled software. Apparently

> > the software is installed via Autoplay when the drive is plugged

> > in. If you format the drive, it wipes your only copy of that

> > software.

>

> > The HID driver could be related to the backup software in some

> > way. Maybe if the backup software is allowed to install, it

> > pops in the HID driver as well. Part of a "one touch"

> > backup strategy or something...

>

> > All guesses,

> >    Paul

>

> Its an Irocks external case.  There is optional use backup software for it.

> Says it works with USB2.  Maybe they just neglected to say firewire...

> The only installation software on the accompanying CD is for 98SE, remainder

> OSes with MS is purely plug/play.

> Will see if I can track down that optional use software now.

> --

> Dave

 

If this is a brand new Western Digital drive and you can access it

completely, the software (one button backup???) might be stored

directly on it.

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: HID device

 

"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote in message

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> Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure. XP found

> the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth. However, its found one thing

> that I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is. The

> errant unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID" Yes, the hard drive is a

> Western Digital. The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire.

>

> I even went as far as doing a clean XP install. Same problem.

>

> Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again. Next

> time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID

> device.

> --

> Dave

>

>

 

Additional information.

 

Tried on USB. Works fine. No HID device detected. The optional backup

software cannot find the USB enclosure's hard drive. Even though windows

explorer sees the 2 partitions correctly. The 2 optional softwares are GIDE

and Filesync (backup software). Addtionally, USB2 connected, the identical

image backup is about one minute longer vs. the firewire connection.

 

I'll live with the bogus firewire HID device. Plug and play is wonderful.

 

Another lesson learned. If your 3rd party boot manager detects bootable USB

devices, the 3rd party boot manager may hide those partitions on the USB

device when booting from your normal onboard hard drive.

--

Dave