Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately I have tried that and when I do unplug and re-power I can see the drive once more, but then 5 mins later it disappears again! I do not even have time to...

Thanks but no, it is getting its power from a separate power cable plugged into a power point.

I have a perplexing problem. I have a Seagate 2TB external drive that when I plug it into my USB3 port it appears in Explorer and sometimes I can even navigate through some of its folders. However...