Windows 10: External HDD recognized as system I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS!

Hey guys,
so I reset my computer recently. I had my external harddrive plugged in when windows was being installed. Now it wont do certain things without being connected, and I can't access certain files (even files like Documents, Pictures, etc). For some reason it'll still boot up into windows, but everything else seems tied to this external. It works when It's not plugged in too though, but I can't access ANYTHING.

This is a pic of the error message I get:





I don't understand. I've NEVER seen this problem before. If you could help, or even steer towards the direction of where I could get help I would be extremely grateful.

Thanks for listening and hope to hear from you soon,

Shane

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Windows won't recognize my usb 3.0 external HDD

Hi,

I have 1TB transcend USB 3.0 external HDD.
Windows did recognized it but no more.

Here is what I've tried:

1. Different OS: Ubuntu doesn't recognize it either
2. Different computer: my Android device and another PC I have With Windows 10 do recognize it
3. BIOS settings tried with/without legacy support
4. Uninstalling the driver (picture attached) it's Microsoft generic since there is no driver to 9BC1 for Windows 10 http://pcidatabase.com/search.php?device_search_str=9cb1&device_search=Search
   [*]USB selective suspend setting disabled in power options
   [*]Regedit to the driver path and change EnhancedPowerManagementEnabled (it doesn't exist)
   http://windowsreport.com/usb-3-0-ext...ve-windows-10/
   

My PC is HP Spectre x360 4003dx.
I'm kinda of clueless right now.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Roey

 

External HDD not recognized

Your Toshiba must be "KaPut" as Toshiba HDD are notorious for failure! I had an external 2015
Model: HDTB110AK3BA Canvio Basics 3.0 Plus 1TB and it gave up after only 3 months of usage. There is not much you can do except do the following:

1) Don't open it

2) Don't do anything that they suggest online to fix HDD's as it will break yours!

3) Take it to a renowned HDD specialist that will properly retrieve your data (if it can be done so?) and you will get all you data back.

Note: To take a HDD to have its data properly retrieved will cost you probably more than the HDD is worth but, if your data is worth it, then do it.

 

Systems Image on External HDD not seen by PC

I have created a systems image on an external HDD using the old Windows 7 Backup/ Restore Setting which still exists in Windows 10.

However when trying to restore the image from the PC itself, the restore settings cannot find the WindowsSystemsImage Folder on the external drive

I had to use a bootable system recovery disk in order to find the folder on the USB drive and then restore the image

I used to be able to see the external image on the laptop usb

What's changed?