Windows Cannot Access The Disk Usb Flash Drive

I replaced an OEM HDD on a Windows 8 HP G7-2246nr laptop with this SSD using Macronium Reflect Free. Noticed improved speed right away. Old HDD was hot to touch when removed. Glad it's gone. Here is what I did. 1) Created system image of entire old HDD to additional external USB HDD using Windows 8 File Recovery tool just in case. 2) Purchased USB 3 to SATA cable. 3) Installed Reflect and viewed support page that explains how to use Reflect. IMPORTANT 4) Cloned all partitions of old HDD in the same order that they are listed under source disk (0) in Reflect. Since is was downsizing from 512 GB old HDD to 240 GB SDD, I paused after dragging C: into destination disk to resize it down to 197 GB and set the drive letter from Auto to C. 5) Added all subsequent partitions including D for recovery (25 GB). Finished Clone keeping all partitions at original size except for C drive. 5) Shut down laptop and swapped out the hard drives and rebooted. Windows 8 recognized the SSD and there was no need to go into EUFI.

This is a great value-- 5TB will give me the room I need to back up files and archive. This is not the fastest drive but I wasn't looking for speed-- just cheap storage. I was also looking for reliability. This is a good brand. Compact, rugged, and highly visible. Compatible with MAC or Windows. Make sure you use a dedicated cable-- USB C to USB C or USB C to USB A-- no adapters. I tried a USB A adapter on a USB C cable and my IMAC did not see the drive-- not even in disk utility. A regular USB C to USB A cable did the trick. It did not mount directly-- I still had to go in to disk utility but there it was. It comes formatted in EX-FAT but I reformatted easily in to MAC Journal Extended. I was up and running in minutes. I also plugged it in to a Windows 10 laptop before the reformat, and it saw the drive right off. A great purchase and I'm happy with the drive. It's no speed demon, but that's not why I picked it up. Image shows HD and USB C to USB A cable (cable not included).

The San Disk Flash drive works great and is compatible with Windows XP and Windows 7. The file transfer is very fast and the device works like a charm. I have read good reports about SanDisk memory sticks.

The drive is faster than most USB ports I will access.

I bought this DVD Drive to go along with an ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW DS71T laptop which doesn't include an internal DVD drive. This DVD drive is barely the size of a DVD disk. It matches nicely with the laptop. It comes with a software disk and a USB splitter cable (you will need two USB ports available on your computer to use this drive). It is well constructed and functions beautifully. The included software is optional. This drive is plug and play, however, my laptop didn't come with Windows DVD Player software. No Problem... I downloaded a highly downloaded free DVD software suite and it works perfectly. It does what I bought it to do. It is not a blue-ray player though. If that is important to you, you'll need to pick another drive.

I moved o.s. and bootable disk to this drive and now windows starts up in five seconds instead of the 30-40 seconds it was taking with the HDD.

Are you a Windows user? Great. Here's what you need to do as this drive is formatted for MAC OS. Images included in this post with instructions 1)plug in the drive to your PC 2)open Disk Management. Where is that? Go to Help and Search 3) look for the Disk that shows 3726.02 Gig this is your new drive. 4)single click on the section that shows: 3725.83 then left click and Delete this volume. **Be Sure you are deleting the CORRECT volume! if you are not sure or biting your nails get professional help with this scenario! 5)Note the Disk# such as Disk 1 or Disk 2 etc and when the pop occurs select only THAT matching Disk# in my case it was #3 as in the image. 6)Once deleted it will show on your screen as Unallocated 3725.83 7)Right Click and choose New Simple Volume 8)Next prompt Assign a Drive Letter. I chose S for Sandisk though you can choose whichever you like that is available. Click Next. 9)Give the Volume a Name. I chose SanDisk 4TB but you can choose anything you wish, even Santa Claus, Easter Bunny etc :). Click Next 10)You are Done. The drive will now show in Windows for the Drive Letter you have chosen

My laptops hard drive died after several years of use, and I replaced it with the exact same drive, I could not get Windows 10 reloaded, something wrong with the image disk I made when the computer was new, so i just downloaded Ubuntu and burned a install DVD disk, and it fired right up and has been working like a Champ.

Sets up with disk management in Windows 10 in just a few seconds and seems a very fast drive. Was a great deal on sale.

B&H shipped the drive fast, Easy to clone with free linux rescue disk windows 10