Internal docking station not recognized in disk management

[HolyFire]

I have a Thermaltake Max4 3.5" SATA HDD Rack, an internal docking station which sits in a 5.25" bay, plugs into a SATA port, and allows hot-plugging a SATA 3.5" drive loaded from outside.

I've used it for a while without problems, but now it ceased to be recognized in Windows 7. I've tried it with two different disks, but in both cases it didn't even appear in disk management.

When I boot to Linux on the same system, the drive is working fine, so I doubt the unit itself is defective. In BIOS it's recognized as well.

Any ideas how to fix this?

 

[Zap]

Is the SATA port it is plugged into set to AHCI mode? Is "hot swap" enabled if there is such a setting?

Reinstall chipset drivers under Windows?

 

[Puffnstuff]

Does it have a power plug on it and if so have you checked it?

 

[HolyFire]

Is the SATA port it is plugged into set to AHCI mode?

Yes.

Is "hot swap" enabled if there is such a setting?

There is. It's been working with no problem with it enabled; when the problem started I tried disabling it but it didn't help. Now it's enabled again.

Reinstall chipset drivers under Windows?

I can try that.

Does it have a power plug on it and if so have you checked it?

Yes.

 

[HolyFire]

Apparently, it was a bad SATA port which manifested its problem only under Windows.