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USB woes!
One of my PCs has a hard time with external USB drives. Although folders on these drives (it's not just one drive in particular) are usually accessible with no issue (i.e. I can browse the folder structure), trying to copy files there, from the PC, for instance, mostly ends up with the drive freezing (often immediately), and/or the file transfer stopping half-way through, and/or Explorer crashing. I have tried connecting the drives via a powered hub and directly via the PC's USB ports (USB3); and the drives themselves can be AC mains-powered, or powered via the PC's USB port, it makes no difference to the problem as far as I can tell. I have tried changing the 'policies' between 'quick removal' and 'better performance', with write-caching disabled or enabled, but again, that may change the copying speed when (if) it starts, but doesn't help with everything locking up shortly thereafter.
If I use a different PC, copying almost always goes ahead swiftly and with no problems, so the PC is implicated I guess, rather than my HDD drives.
So any idea what the problem might be with the PC in question? I have had it (the problem) for ages.. not due to a recent update, for instance. I have tried updating USB drivers via Device Manager, but I just get a notice saying the best drivers are already installed. Fed up of Googling this now - maybe someone here will know exactly what's needed!
Windows 10 x64... 22H2 19045.2728
Martin
Thank you