Yes. I did a troubleshooting check which turned up nothing. I also checked all drivers, and everything is up to date.

The USB storage device is recognized. And my USB mouse and game controller...

After the large recent update to Windows 10, my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop no longer will open USB storage devices like SD cards or USB harddrives.

The device is recognized and appears in the file...

That did the trick! Thank you very much for your help!

I did the powershell reinstall again just to make sure. It gives me a ton of red text. I can't seem to select to copy it here, but lots of "cannot find path 'c:\AppXManifest.xml' because it does not...

Yes, that's the one I did.

I tried a system restore twice, both times the computer restarted telling me it hadn't been done successfully.

So is the repair install my only option left at this...

Yes, I did that, and nothing came up.

Is this a stumper?

If this will help, let me say a bit more. Often, but not always, when I start up the computer, it never makes it to the user log in page, but is just stuck with a black screen...

Starting a couple of days ago my Windows 10 computer start menu stopped opening (although I can still right click on it to shut down). This coincided with a chime constantly sounding. I'm not sure if...