Problems USB3 HDD


  1. paulkruger
    Posts : 69
    Wind7 64 x 3 | Win Vista 32 | Ubunto
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    Problems USB3 HDD


    I have several USB external drives I use for backups.

    For some reason they all are behaving erratically or not at all on Win7 but working fine on W10

    I reformatted one with MiniTool on the W10 machine but if I plug into W7 it just clicks as if it is bad drive.
    I with it connected the MinTool refuses to launch. I disconnect the drive and MT loads fine.

    Move drive back to W10 all is well.

    This is the drive I have always used for saving diskimage of my W7 machine.

    Why would my W7 machine all of a sudden have problems accepting USB drives. 3.0 or 2.0

    Thanks
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  3. Megahertz07
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    Windows 7 HP 64
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    Lets do the basic on your Win 7
    Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
    chkdsk c: /f
    It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
    Restart
    Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc

    Back to Windows, open a CMD window as administrator and type:
    sfc /scannow
    If it finds any corrupted file, reboot and run again.

    Open Device Manager. Is there any yellow alert of missing driver?
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