Windows 10: USB Drive Disconnects and Freezes Randomly

I keep encountering an issue with my USB drive F: on Windows 11. Every time I connect it, I receive a message stating, "There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it." I've tried using the built-in Windows tool to scan and fix the drive, but it doesn't resolve the problem. The drive continues to randomly disconnect, especially during presentations or when transferring files, and occasionally freezes the system.I’ve already attempted the following without success:Using a different USB portScanning the drive with Windows' error-checking toolChecking and updating driversDisab

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Windows 10 freezes randomly

I had already tried turning off fast startup, to no avail.
Will look at the list you provided, thanks. Hard to do when computer freezes on the Windows loading screen though. *Biggrin

I had tried that as well... no result.

 

USB 3.0 randomly disconnecting and reconnecting, not power config

So I have a Surface Pro 3 running Windows 10, and an external USB 3 HDD. If I plug in the HDD, a process will begin. First the drive will appear with the drive letter only, and be unreadable, but in an unusual way. Any software that attempts to interact with it will hang until it either crashes or the drive is disconnected. During this stage the drive may disconnect and reconnect multiple times. If left in for long enough, the drive will finally show up with it's name, and be readable. However it still disconnects and reconnects.

Steps I have tried:

• Disabling the power saving features for all USB devices in Device Manager
  
• Reinstalling all USB drivers
  
• Testing hard disk on my desktop computer (where it works fine).
  
• Powering down the drive for an extended time before trying again
  

 

USB randomly disconnecting and reconnecting

Someone, I need help. My USB devices started to disconnecting and reconnecting after a second. It happens randomly, and I don't know what it is related with.

This issue occurred after I clean my PC. I knew what I did, I mean I didn't disconnect something, and now it's not working or something else...

I saw this thread on Microsoft support and did all described there, but it didn't help me. What I did:

1. reinstall chipset driver
   
2. uninstall all USB devices in devise manager and then rebooted
   
3. changed the power control of USB devices in the device manager
   
4. changed the power control of USB devices in control panel
   
5. power recycle my PC (turn off → unplug the power cables → press and hold the power button...)
   
6. updated my bios
   

Also, I am sure, that it is Windows problem, because I have dual boot Linux and there are no problems on Linux.

Also, I am pretty sure, that it is not dual boot problem, because there was no problem earlier.

Also, I am sure that it is not the hardware problem, because: there is no problem on Linux, there was no problem earlier