Windows 10: Windows 10 wont load up USB 3 External SSD memory storage disk drives

Discus and support Windows 10 wont load up USB 3 External SSD memory storage disk drives in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; The issue happens on multiple platforms - PC and LapTops running Win10. Issues are with Samsung Portable SSD MU-PS250 (direct USB3 output) - I have... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by roscodoc, Apr 28, 2016.

  1. roscodoc Win User

    Windows 10 wont load up USB 3 External SSD memory storage disk drives


    The issue happens on multiple platforms - PC and LapTops running Win10. Issues are with Samsung Portable SSD MU-PS250 (direct USB3 output) - I have tried several of these Drives and all wont work! and SanDisk Exterme Pro SATA in a 2.5" SATAIII to USB 3.0 external enclosure (Vantec NexStar 6 G NST-266S3)


    An explanation mark comes up beside these drives under Disk Drives in Device Manager. Not seen in Disk Management.

    BOTH of these SSD disk drives work well under Win7! - without ANY problem at all.
    These are both new SSD Disk Drives.
    I have even tried formatting them 1st under Win 7 - but Win 10 still won't Mount them despite them working nicely under Win 7. I have tried using the Disk Drives latest drivers to no avail!!

    So the issue is not with any particular Win 10 computer (ASUS PC, ASUS ROG & HP laptop) nor with any particular SSD drive. Multiple complaints and unsuccessful "helpful" suggestions are on the various Web Forums about this SAME problem.

    This suggests to me that there is a serious problem with Win 10 that Microsoft has not addressed yet.
    As an aside - I am now using a HP PC Z640 and I have gone back to using Win 7 - I won't touch/ install Win 10 / upgrade from Win7 - there is a serious issue with this OS in my opinion. Same conclusion by my IT department at work - they wont touch Win 10 either - 12 months ago they upgraded our large multi- PC systems from XP to Win 7!!

    I have have had a look at HP website to what needs to occur to run Win 10 on my HP Z640 - NO way will I attempt this upgrade. Both of my external SSD external drives work nicely under Win7

    :)
     
    roscodoc, Apr 28, 2016
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  2. JonGrimes Win User

    External SATA3 SSD to USB (512GB Crucial MX100 SSD) showing up as a Hard drive in Windows 10 Defragment and optimize drives?

    It must be an issue with Windows 10 Control Panels' Defragment and Optimize drives inability to detect any SSD

    placed into any external SATA 3 to USB 3.0 Storage device. For now, Windows 10 detection of an SSD seems limited

    to internal SSDs' only.

    I'm not concerned with lack of trim support since SSD trim is limited to Operating System drives

    only & I use this external USB SSD for backups & additional storage. Don't worry about Windows 10 defragmenting & ruining your external USB SSD though because despite it being incorrectly detected as an HDD

    the defragment drive feature doesn't seem to work on SSDs' that are designed to use their own internal garbage collection anyhow.

    I've tried System Restore several times to correct this issue to no avail. The external USB SSD works and runs perfectly

    despite Windows 10 detecting it as an HDD so I'm no longer concerned about this issue. Good luck!
     
    JonGrimes, Apr 28, 2016
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  3. JonGrimes Win User
    External SATA3 SSD to USB (512GB Crucial MX100 SSD) showing up as a Hard drive in Windows 10 Defragment and optimize drives?

    When checking the Windows 10 Control Panel feature Defragment and Optimize your drives, my 512GB Crucial MX100 SSD installed

    in a Nexstar (NST-266S3-SV) 2.5" SATA3 to USB 3.0 external HDD/SSD Enclosure shows up as a Hard disc drive (not as a solid state drive)?

    I've tried uninstalling it, restarting Windows 10 with no change to the SSD showing up as a Hard disc drive in the Defragment and Optimize your drives feature. I've unplugged the enclosure and plugged it back in to the same as well as different USB ports
    with no change.

    The 512GB Crucial MX100 SSD shows up everywhere it should, is easily accessed, runs at 450MB/s Read, 420MB/s Write as an external USB storage device (using numerous SSD Benchmarks), has the latest Crucial firmware and driver, shows up as healthy in SSD Storage
    Tools, etc.? My ASUS G751JY notebooks two internal drives (512GB OEM Samsung SM951 PCIe M.2 OS SSD & 1TB Samsung 850 Pro Storage

    SSD) show up correctly in the Windows 10 Control Panel Defragment and Optimize your drives as Solid State drives. The ASUS G751JY

    notebook has the latest ASUS AS211 BIOS and all the latest hardware drivers as well as Windows 10 updates?

    Any and all suggestions appreciated, I'm stumped. The only good thing is that despite showing up as a Hard disc drive, everything runs & works perfectly using it as an external 512GB storage SSD.
     
    JonGrimes, Apr 28, 2016
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  4. Windows 10 wont load up USB 3 External SSD memory storage disk drives

    I have several external USB drive enclosures, USB 2 and USB 3, with spinners and SSD's in them. They all work in Windows 10. The issue must be with that make model of enclosure under Windows 10?
     
    alphanumeric, Apr 28, 2016
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  5. roscodoc Win User
    Does not explain every Samsung ssd ext drive that don't use an enclosure. Taken the Samsung drive back to retailer n tested on their various laptops running Win 10 n got same result..no go!
    nor the fact that the Vantec works without problem under Win 7
     
    roscodoc, Apr 28, 2016
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  6. NavyLCDR New Member
    Making a particular device work with Windows 10 is not Microsoft's responsibility. Making the device work with Windows 10 is the device manufacturer's responsibility. Your statement that Windows 10 is horribly flawed because a particular piece of hardware won't work on Windows 10 is flawed. It's Samsung's responsibility to make a Samsung drive work with Windows 10, not Microsoft's.
     
    NavyLCDR, Apr 5, 2018
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