Dynadock Universal USB 3.0 Docking Station: no autoconnect of USB-HDD after Win8 power-up

Hello,
I've recently obtained a Dell XPS-12 which only has a SSD-HDD.
In order to overcome the limitations in terms of available connections I bought a Dynadock which works fine so far.
I want to use the Dynadock in a configuration where it is the only device connected to the laptop and all peripherals are connected to the dynadock.
If I connect a USB-HDD to the dynadock I so far did not manage to have the HDD reliably connected to the laptop after power-up, sometimes it works, sometimes I need to unplug the HDD.
I did not find a sequence of powering up laptop/dynadock that does the job.
Any ideas?
Best regards
Tim Tom

Did you ever resolve this issue, because I am having exactly the same issue!  Thanks!

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