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Yes David it did work ok after a fashion but was filling up with I don't what - I tried to shift as much a I could to the 1TB backup internal and delete some programs but it just seemed to grow like topsy until the bar went red and having a disaster recently with mu old laptop drive filling up like it too I didn't want to go there again because I had to reinstall all over again after messing it up.
I do have roughly the same programs on each machine I have and have no problems with the others - the machine in question seems to have a mind of it's own it would seem. Programs are roughly the same as in my pics - the only difference is there are more NVidia ones.
When I get back I shall try the old drive back in as I was using it as the C: drive after the previous 120GB filled much the same way. Plus there was nothing wrong with USB ports then it just appeared out of the blue and after the new drive (850 EVO) blew the performance of the old drive (840 EVO) out of the water.
The drivers / software for the external stuff just loaded as normal before with that message that lets you know the software for it is being installed and it did start to do it but failed with this new drive in.