Quote:

Hi John,

As a matter of interest over the last few years I have had these problems frequently occur causing me to think that the USB external hard drives were faulty and even getting them replaced

But when the new ones came the same problem appeared so I began to look for other answers - I tried powered USB hubs with no result and then one day by accident I did a sequence that solved my problem everything worked - I posted this finding a couple of years ago

I actually went opposite to the instructions and plugged the lead/leads into the computers USB port/s first and then into the external hard drive last and it worked on all the drives I thought were faulty

I also found that doing it the instruction way (and did not get recognised even with the two connectors) could be resolved by opening a program I use Paragon Partition Manager to see that a drive showed up but a drive letter had not been assigned to the drive - so I assigned a drive letter and it worked fine for that session - it obviously had enough power to operate but somehow confused on recognition
jazzman


This is very interesting and useful, and I don't recall seeing it the first time around. You might consider placing this info in the Tips and Tricks forum.

BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.