Windows 10: External ssd from walmart

I am running Windows 7 that is sp3 and fully up to date. I have 2 internal ssd my files and movies where playing just fine on them and i even had some stored on a micro sd card attached to a card reader adapter and even then no problems. Except running out of space.I bought a 10tb ssd from walmart and formatted the drive to efat so it would be compatible with my android phone as well.I began moving files including home movies that have been saved for years.Around 100gb or over 100 movies and other assorted files. Audio files Program backups. EctSome movies will play and others will not and now

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External SSD recognized as HDD in Windows 10

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand your query related to External SSD showing as HDD when connected to the PC using USB 3.0 port. For further clarity on the issue, please respond to the questions below.

1. Have you tried connecting the SSD to any other PC?
   
2. Are you using any converter to connect the SSD through USB 3.0 port?
   
3. Are you using a RAID configuration?
   

I have researched on your query and found that the SSD that you are using is an internal SSD drive, in this case I would suggest you to try updating the Intel Rapid Storage drivers from the

intel website and see if that helps.



In addition, this issue can occur if the SSD is connected to a SATA controller that is identified as RAID (SCSI). I would suggest you to try connecting the SSD to a SATA port that uses AHCI controller such as Intel SATA controller/chipset.



Please get back to us with the detailed information to assist you further.



Regards,

Prakhar Khare

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Booting from the Walmart DVD

Linda,

1 Boot selection



I think you have already told me that yours is 64 bit so you can just check that's selected and press the Enter/Return key

2 Regional settings {not illustrated by Walmart}




The above is mine. I think yours might well be




Perhaps the Walmart DVD sequence skips this but I'd be surprised.
- Just select your own region {US, I suppose but didn't think to ask you} in the three choices then click on the Next button.
- If you don't have a USB mouse / touchpad then you can use arrow keys & the tab key to move around the different entries and, when Next is selected, press Return.

3 Install now / Repair your computer choice



You must choose Repair your computer.
- If you have a USB mouse / touchpad then you can just click on that.
- If you don't have a USB mouse / touchpad then press the tab key to cycle over the choices or press whichever letter is underlined in Repair your computer [their diagram is badly edited so I can't tell if it is the R or the E.

4 Choose an option menu



Click on Troubleshoot [or use up/down arrow keys then press return]

5 Troubleshoot menu



Click on Advanced options [or use up/down arrow keys then press return]

6 Advanced options menu



Click on Command prompt [or use up/down arrow keys then press return]

7 Command prompt



This is what it will look like.
- Notice, for example, that it says the drive you are on is X:\ You will probably not have seen that before but it's OK.
- Your other disk might also have non-standard drive letters but that is also OK and they will revert to normal once you reboot later on.

8 Enable ... Built-In Administrator account - TenForumsTutorials procedure
You can now pick up the Enable ... Built-In Administrator account - TenForumsTutorials procedure at
Option 5, Step 2.
- This is the bit that I said would look daunting. But it does work.
- At Step 5, you will need to browse around to find the normal Windows disk because it may not be C:\ [It will not be X:\ so don't even think of choosing that] so take a look at D then E … You will be looking for the disk that has a Windows folder AND a Users folder AND a PerfLogs folder.
- If you get stuck then you can exit out of everything and post back to explain the problem [once again, photos will probably help clarify the nature of the problem even if you have to post them within a docx file as before].

9 Back to my post #8, steps 2,3,4

Best of luck,
Denis

 

External SSD not recognized as SSD in Windows 10

Hello community!

(this topic applies to Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 equally)

my question concerns an external 240GB SSD drive connected to my laptop via an USB 3.0 port. The SSD works fine, but when using the "Optimize Drives" utility, the drive is listed as "Hard Disk Drive" under media type. As stated by almost all SSD manufacturers,
standard defragmentation on a SSD can actually harm the SSD and over time reduce performance and life-cycle. A test revealed that the optimization for the external SSD is actually performed like on a regular HDD and the TRIM command is not used. This would
also indicate that the regular TRIM commands issued by Windows are not applied to the external SSD drive either. Short of turning off automatic optimization, is there a way to tell Windows that this is an SSD drive and to treat it as such (regardless of
the information provided by the disk- or case-controller) ?

See also picture attached -

Drive C: is a SanDisk SDSSDXP480GR131 SSD drive built in the laptop and recognized properly as an SSD.


Drive F: is Lite-On LMT-256M6M SSD drive attached via one of the USB3.0 ports and classified as regular HDD.