Windows 10: External HDD disappears after a few minutes

Good afternoon all,

One of my external HDD's disappears after a few minutes; this only started happening since I upgraded to Windows 10.

It will show up again after unplugging and plugging it in again, but again only for a few minutes.

Here is what I have done so far:

• Tried both USB 2 and USP 3 ports.
• Disabled the automatic power off in power management.
• Tried running the HDD on my laptop (a Mac), where it just works fine.
• It will not show up in the disk management so I cannot reassign another drive number.
• I checked in the device manager if there were any issues but everything seems fine.

So briefly, I have run out of options and would be very thankful for any help.

Best regards,

Hanno

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Sometimes it takes a few times.

It's happened a couple times on my Win 10 systems ....a restart always fixed it.

The best solution is to 'Re-install ' Windows 10

You can get the latest
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or the latest
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*john

 

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