Windows 10: I have an SSK USB drive enclosure which will not appear in Windows 11, It worked fine when...

All drivers are up to Date.I have tried the drive on another PC and it still works fine.I have tried looking for solutions and even went through a session with Microsoft Online.

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USB Disk drive no longer works on Desktop, works fine on MS Surface

Everyone thanks for taking you time to help we with this problem.

This morning I have more time to work on this issue. I have two USB drives - really just enclosures that connect via USB and house standard disk drives. I took them both apart and switched the disk drives. The disk drive from the failing USB enclosure
worked fine in the other enclosure and the disk drive from the working enclosure failed in the same way in the suspect enclosure. My conclusion is that the failing USB enclosure has developed a hardware problem and needs to be retired - neither of these devices
are exactly new.

I am going to mark the problem resolved.

I think I know what I am going to up on my Christmas list. In the mean time this drives are used only occasionally for backups and I will just manually switch the drives in the working enclosure.

 

Windows 10 doesn't recognize external USB drive that worked on Windows 7

Thanks for your suggestions.

The old WD IDE drive in the USB NexStar enclosure does not show up in Disk Management.

An external Iomega IDE USB drive does show up and works fine.

It would appear to me the problem lies in the enclosure or the drive itself. I'll order a new 2.5" IDE enclosure and try that while I try and hunt down a backup drive or disk.

 

Can't access drives in external USB 3 enclosures

Thanks for the suggestions.

I took a look at their forum, and there's practically no activity there. There was no mention of this issue there.

The thing is those drives all work fine if I connect the enclosures via esata. They come right up and work fine. It's only when I connect the enclosure using USB 3.0 that the drives aren't recognized. Per Icy Dock's suggestion in an email I received, I tried starting the enclosure with just 1 drive inside, and it still wasn't recognized over USB 3.0.

When I set up my new PC a few months ago, I installed all the latest drivers, direct from Gigabyte, my motherboard manufacturer. I'll also mention that I have an old USB 2.0 enclosure by another manufacturer and that is instantly recognized in my motherboard's USB 3.0 ports. So the only enclosures that don't work are the Icy Dock enclosures and only when connected via USB 3.0.