One of my Windows 10 computers won't recognize any of the USB 2 and USB 3 external drives I connect to it. It doesn't matter which USB port I use (USB does work on other devices). They don't appear in Device Manager which shows no drivers warnings. Disk Management doesn't see any of these external drives. All drives work on other computers.
BUT, the one thing that DOES see the drives is the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" taskbar popup. But I can't do anything useful with that.
The drives I tried were a WD MyBook USB 3, a WD passport USB 2 and an ordinary WD USB 2 external drive. An external USB DVD drive is recognized.
It just seems like some kind of USB driver is missing but I have no idea what driver. I do have the WD SES device USB driver installed although that isn't supposed to be required for your drive to be recognized by the computer anyway.
BUT, the one thing that DOES see the drives is the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" taskbar popup. But I can't do anything useful with that.
The drives I tried were a WD MyBook USB 3, a WD passport USB 2 and an ordinary WD USB 2 external drive. An external USB DVD drive is recognized.
It just seems like some kind of USB driver is missing but I have no idea what driver. I do have the WD SES device USB driver installed although that isn't supposed to be required for your drive to be recognized by the computer anyway.
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