So this has been giving me a troubleshooting nightmare. I have a Toshiba external Hard drive that only works on some computers.
If I plug it into my old laptop, it works fine. Functions as a hard drive just like normal. However if I plug it into my desktop or my new laptop, I get the "USB Device Not Recognized" error.
All 3 machines are running the latest windows 10 software. My new laptop is from Dell, my desktop is custom built, and my old laptop hp. The old laptop has an AMD processor, while the two new ones have Intel.
On the machines it isn't recognized on, it is noticed in the BIOS as a hard drive. However right when windows starts up it states that the USB is not recognized.
I have tried formatting the hard drive on the machine that it works on. I have tried using a Y power for potentially more power, if it needed that. I have tried other computers to have mixed results where some work and some don't. The drive used to work on all computers. But it doesn't anymore.
Sidenote: I may have used the drive as a bootable disk at some point, but I can't remember. Could this have screwed it up. A format should clear all of this right?
Anyone ever dealt with a problem like this?
If I plug it into my old laptop, it works fine. Functions as a hard drive just like normal. However if I plug it into my desktop or my new laptop, I get the "USB Device Not Recognized" error.
All 3 machines are running the latest windows 10 software. My new laptop is from Dell, my desktop is custom built, and my old laptop hp. The old laptop has an AMD processor, while the two new ones have Intel.
On the machines it isn't recognized on, it is noticed in the BIOS as a hard drive. However right when windows starts up it states that the USB is not recognized.
I have tried formatting the hard drive on the machine that it works on. I have tried using a Y power for potentially more power, if it needed that. I have tried other computers to have mixed results where some work and some don't. The drive used to work on all computers. But it doesn't anymore.
Sidenote: I may have used the drive as a bootable disk at some point, but I can't remember. Could this have screwed it up. A format should clear all of this right?
Anyone ever dealt with a problem like this?
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