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Just follow up.. Bought new cord on Amazon and USB 3 worked however, the drive seems to be failing so that might ultimately be the issue. At least was able to get stuff off.
Just follow up.. Bought new cord on Amazon and USB 3 worked however, the drive seems to be failing so that might ultimately be the issue. At least was able to get stuff off.
That didn't work. I've been using the usb 2 port, so all is not lost. But what's the point of having a fast usb 3 if it's defective. And I say defective because something this simple should be plug-and-play, this 2016 not 1984. I wrote disk drivers for DOS faster than MS can figure how to get their stuff working right. That it's being "solved" on a forum rather than by the company that wrote this shit tells you all you need to know.
And it isn't up to Microsoft to write drivers for the billions of specific pieces of hardware out there let alone all the combinations that result from mixing that hardware. It is up to the manufacturer of the hardware to write drivers for it. - But it's just easier to complain about Microsoft and blame them for everything.
This is a seagate drive, not some off-brand stuff, it should plug and play.
I don't want to "blame" anyone, I just want the crap to work as advertised. By the way, when is MS gonna fix the audio driver for Skype, that's been going on for about a year now.
Exactly, the drive worked on the usb 3 port on my ASUS q302, once I flipped a BIOS switch to disable legacy support. There's no similar switch on my HP Starwars BIOS and no one seems to know how to resolve the issue. These forums are nice and all, but I miss the day when you could look at a reference manual and get an answer. MS used to write such manuals, back in the day, now they, and everyone else to be fair, just throws a product out and lets the "forums" solve the problems. Not a good business model.