Hi all, up until last week, my 3 and a bit year old external back up drive – THIS – , worked fine. Whenever I plugged it in, it opened an Explorer page and displayed a drive letter in the Drive List also displaying the contents. It holds my Acronis Backups. 2 x ( 1 x Full + 2 x diff ).
I went to plug it in yesterday and it still plays the tune at plug in, and shows it’s there in the up arrow pop-up by the System Tray, but just as an Expansion Drive ( No drive letter). It doesn’t open an Explorer page. I suspected a dodgy cable, so I ordered one off Amazon – HERE – and it has made no difference.
It’s there in Disk Management, correctly named and as Disk1, Basic, 465.76GB NTFS, Online, showing as a Healthy ( Logical Drive ), but with the Open and Explore option greyed out.
I’m in the process of doing another back up to it, using Acronis. It shows as a Custom Destination for the back up ( as always ) but it has stopped – “Cannot access the path E:\Acronis Backups\EntirePC_full-s1_v11.tib” – twice now.
I’m using the USB port on the front of my PC, which functions correctly for a variety of USB sticks, opening FE pages and displaying contents, just like the external drive used to do. I’ve also just tried it in a rear USB port, and it behaves the same as the front.
My concern is that I wanted to re-install ( using the Creators Update ) onto an SSD along with some programmes, install all the other programmes to a new 1TB spinner and move Docs, Pics, Videos and Music onto the spinner as well. This would give me an updated, working system with OS on the SSD, plus the current set-up on the ( 1year ) old spinner in a drawer as an emergency spare.
Before I start dismantling it and trying the disk in my docking station, I thought to check here to see if anyone had any suggestions to try out first.
Any ideas anybody??
Edited to show 3y/o disk not 2y/o.
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