Windows 10: SATA to USB Adapter - Drive Not Seen

Discus and support SATA to USB Adapter - Drive Not Seen in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Hi Guys, I have one of those newfangled SATA-to-USB adapters for internal hard drives. I have attempted to hook up two of them - one is a WD... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by voxlumania, Aug 23, 2015.

  1. VOXLUMANIA
    voxlumania Win User

    SATA to USB Adapter - Drive Not Seen


    Hi Guys,

    I have one of those newfangled SATA-to-USB adapters for internal hard drives.

    I have attempted to hook up two of them - one is a WD Caviar 500GB; another is a Seagate Barracuda 3000GB.

    I am not able to see inside them. If I go to Windows 10 computer (disk) management, I can definitely see that Windows sees the drive (and puts it in Disk 1, showing online). It also shows me the drive partitions.

    However, it doesn't tell me the file system on the partitions, and it doesn't give me any way to map drive letters to them. (most of the properties on each volume are greyed out; volumes show "Healthy (Primary Partition)" but do not have any drive letters attached.

    On Windows 7, before the upgrade, this stuff worked.

    any ideas?

    Thanks in advance!

    - Bill

    :)
     
    voxlumania, Aug 23, 2015
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  2. PERRYMCCLINTOCK
    PerryMcClintock Win User

    SATA WD spindel hard drive seen as USB Flash Drive

    when I try to do a windows update on build 10074 it will not update with the error you cannt install windows on a usb flash drvie and the only option to close? What is set wrong? Even tried to run setup.exe from the release build version from USB/DVD and
    get the same error message

    I searched the web and got USB Flash see as Hard drive not the other way around
     
    PerryMcClintock, Aug 23, 2015
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  3. 'MIKE P
    'Mike P Win User
    USB 3.0 External External Hard Dive

    USB 3.0 should work fine unless its just a bad caddy.

    Problem I've seen 2.5 older spinner drives is they want too much voltage and current for usb so you sometimes need to try a different usb port as some ports are high powered and some low powered. Or get an a/c powered dock which is ideal. Or one of the
    2.5 sata to usb adapters with 2 usb cables.
     
    'Mike P, Aug 23, 2015
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