Windows 10: Drive Status Indicator

Hello there: adding to this thread on the drive icons, how does one alter the appearance of the status bar indicator from its W10 default back to what W7 displays? as quoted 10 is really drab, I have already altered the desktop icons, drive icons & the folder icons to 7 but how does one alter the drive status bar? where in the registry does one go, & what does one use as a source for the 7 drive status bar? Seeing as I have a dual boot option & one of the two systems is 7 can I get the wanted dll from the 7 op/sys? (that's basically what I did with the other icons). thx very much

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Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD

 

Why do I have a battery indicator?

Hi,

Thank you for replying back with the status of this issue.

I would suggest you to follow the below steps and check whether the power icon have grayed out in settings.

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  Type settings in the search bar and press enter
  
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  Click on System
  
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  Select Notification and action
  
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  Click on Turn system icon on or off
  

Reply us back with the status of this issue. We will be glad to assist you.

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How do I unlock the drive where Windows 10 is installed?