Windows 10: Problems Accessing External USB Disk

Discus and support Problems Accessing External USB Disk in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; I have a PC dell i3 and a mini PC both with win 10, in the mini pc I have connected a usb disk of 1tb and I share it to see my movies, I gave... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by monchy0521, Nov 23, 2016.

  1. Problems Accessing External USB Disk


    I have a PC dell i3 and a mini PC both with win 10, in the mini pc I have connected a usb disk of 1tb and I share it to see my movies, I gave permission to everyone in my network so that I can access it, if I do it The PC dell I have no problems, but if I try to access from my android, let me see the folders but not access them.



    Thanks for the opportunity, I hope you can help me
    I have a PC dell i3 and a mini PC both with win 10, in the mini pc I have connected a usb disk of 1tb and I share it to see my movies, I gave permission to everyone in my network so that I can access it, if I do it The PC dell I have no problems, but if I try to access from my android, let me see the folders but not access them.Thanks for the opportunity, I hope you can help me

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    monchy0521, Nov 23, 2016
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  2. External Disk Devices once formated in Windows 10 are no longer shown on the computer.

    I have formatted 2 different external disk drives in Windows 10. For one or two times I was able to access these external drives to use for backup. Then one day neither drive was available for access on my computer. I tried to reconnect each drive to
    one of the 4 additional USB ports on my computer. Still the same problem. My external disk drives are shown in Device Manager and in Connected Devices, but not shown in Devices and drives in This PC nor in Disk Management. I went to each respective vendor
    for support- reloaded their software and still the drives were not shown.
     
    RICHARD GWILLIAMS JR, Nov 23, 2016
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  3. USB External Harddisk - I/O device error after upgrading to Windows10

    Hello,

    I have 2 external hard disk connected to my PC via USB 3, it was working fine under Windows 8.

    When I upgraded to Windows 10, the hard disk show up ok in the file manager (under 'This PC'), but when trying to access the files on the hard disk, an error message shows up -

    "Location is not available

    z:\xxx\xxxx is not accessible

    The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error "

    I then turn off the hard disk and then back on again, it is back to normal again and I can access the files with no problems.

    But after about 1 hour without using the external hard disk, and trying the access it again, the same problem happens again and I got the I/O device error message again.

    It seen Windows 10 put the external HD to sleep but then it cannot activate it again afterward.........not a problem with Windows 8.

    Any solution for this problem please.
     
    Edward Lee 323, Nov 23, 2016
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