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Seagate External Drive no longer being recognized in Windows 10?

Anonymous
2020-03-02T00:09:02+00:00

I have a Seagate Backup Plus Slim External Drive that is no longer being recognized in Windows 10,it works fine in Windows 7,8 and on other computers/devices but ever since I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro I have been having this issue and it is still not solved! I followed all the troubleshooting steps and downloaded and installed the Seagate Paragon Driver for WIndows and my drive is still not being recognized but shows up in the taskbar as being plugged in and shows in "Device Manager" as plugged in but stated "There are no drivers installed for this device"  When I plugged in my drive it seems to interfere with my computer and tasks such as "update driver" "uninstall" or even "restart" my computer will not work it just stays running the tasks and nothing happens, I am forced to restart and unplugged the drive manually then once restarted I am able to perform these tasks again without the drive being plugged in. I find it a shame that many other Windows 10 users have this same issue and Microsoft does nothing to solve it but ask us to run the same old troubleshooting steps that never solves the issue. It's Windows 10 itself that creates these problems for drives and devices,it's always contained flaws and problems since it was first released. Windows 7 and 8 never contained any of these issues at least it didn't for as my devices and drives worked fine on Windows 7 and 8. I have reverted back to Windows 7 Ultimate two times now and have reinstalled Windows 10 Pro and same results as my drive works fine in Windows 7 Ultimate,it contains no viruses,or is damaged the drive is healthy! There has to be a solution to this perhaps others settings that might not be configured correctly such as "Services" or any of the settings in "gpedit.msc" or "regedit" that could be preventing my drive from not being recognized?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T01:11:29+00:00

    I have pretty much the same problems with my Seagate external drives as well as any other external drive I connect to my USB ports.  I installed Win 10 Pro on the 12th of January and was using all of my external drives without any problem until I installed the updates that came out on January 18th.  Microsoft support was no help in solving my problems.  An update that came out on Feb 11 seemed to help a little but definitely did not solve the problem.  I have another computer running Win 10 Home and all of my USB drives work flawlessly on that machine.  Win 7 Pro was a dream operating system and it is too bad Win 10 is so buggy.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T23:08:17+00:00

    My Seagate drives show up but can only be safely removed by going to the Device Manager.  They also do not always mount when connected, it'**** and miss.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T00:55:40+00:00

    Yes and it showed Drive "E" but stated "No Media" I guess thats what the Paragon Drive created. My Seagate Drive always showed as drive "E" I have tried all other usb ports and same result and even updated them using "Driver Easy" all my drivers are up to date on my computer. So there should not be this issue. I contacted Seagate support and they said to contact you "Microsoft" for the proper newer driver for it. The Seagate drive is supported for Windows 7 and higher so it just needs the right driver perhaps a new one for Windows 10?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-03T04:39:19+00:00

    So I guess the only option we have is to use Windows 8.1 lol I was pointed here by Seagate themselves as this is a Microsoft issue and they can only solve it with a correct newer driver for it they said.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-03-02T00:21:22+00:00

    Did you look in Disk Management when it was plugged in?

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