Aug 14, 2025 · Whether an external drive shows the eject option or not depends on how the system identifies that drive. Most of my thumb drives show the eject option, but many of my external drives I …

Mar 10, 2025 · Win 11 Pro 64 bit 24H2 Dell Precision Laptop Windows no longer connects to any external drives. They show up in Device Manager, but are not detected by windows explorer, or disk …

Jul 31, 2020 · One thing I noticed though, is when looking at each external hard drive folder on my laptop, down the left hand side under 'This PC' it shows all hard drives connected, but it's showing …

Apr 15, 2025 · UPDATE: I have now tried 5 different external hard drives of 3 different makes . Explorer was unable to see three out of 5 of them and could see exactly 1 out of 2 of two different types of …

Nov 27, 2021 · OS drives and fixed drives (ex: internal drives) will only be shown under This PC, and not separately in the navigation pane. You must be signed in as an administrator to add or remove …

Feb 13, 2022 · This tutorial will show you how to use Safely Remove Hardware for removeable storage devices in Windows 11. To avoid losing data, it's important to remove external hardware like hard …

Aug 1, 2024 · External hard drive asking for bitlocker password. The drive has never been encrypted. Windows 10 was installed on 2-2-2023 It is a WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive. I have …

Sep 25, 2018 · If you're seeing something like this (notice I: and E: drives both show up twice) it's because Windows shows all drives when "This PC" is expanded but still also shows all external …

Feb 24, 2025 · When adding a external backup drive, Windows 11 assigns a drive letter okay, but it makes duplicates with one showing up under the C: drive and one under This PC. (See the bottom of …

Apr 16, 2020 · New external drive really slows Win boot time I've had 2 x Seagate 2Tb external drives plugged in for some time with zero issue. I've now added a WD 8Tb external drive, and now there is …