Hi Matt,

I have spent the last few hours going over all the combinations on two computers (with different leads etc) and I think that it proves that you have to know your unique computer the same as your own body

On my two computers the consistant events are if I plug the lead into the external hard drive first and then the the black and red to the computer neither will recognise the drive in any combination of USB ports - I even tried the disconnect the USB printer and other USB connections with no result - but if I do it the other way with connection to the computer first in any order then it works here even with all other USB ports connected to their devices

I did find at times that it took some time to install the port software and to show recognition but it works fine for something that is always connected here - I found that to defrag the BIAB External Drive helps to speed up the recognition

I also just noticed something I cannot remember on XP and that is in Windows 7 in the Device Manager area for the USB ports/hubs there is a Power Management page that by default has the "allow the computer to turn off off this device to save power" and I am now going to see what effect this has on the two options of the external drive and others

The Paragon Partition Manager finds the drive no matter what you do and it either shows a drive letter my way or un-allocated as per the instructions- and when you assign a drive letter it works normally for that session.
This proves that it has enough power to run the drive but not recognise it and automatically assign a drive letter

This is getting more important to solve as the BIAB external drive is becoming more critical for some as the package grows in size
Brian

BIAB - RealBand - 2022
Windows 10 64
Zoo computer with 7i processor- SSD 1TB -2TB HDD
Roland keyboards