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‎11-20-2018 06:25 PM

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Product: HP Omen Laptop
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have 5 external hard drives one of which is an HP, no problem with this one. A Seagate, and Western Digitals.  Two San DIsk flash drives.  Up until a few days ago all of the above were functioning and displaying on the WIndows FIle Mgr and Disk Mgt in the Device Mgr.  Now only the HP is being recognized and shows up on the File Mgr.  When I plug these directly into the lapt USB port I get beep, the little lite on the drives flashes and that is it, I go to WIndows FIle Mgr of the Device Mgr and there is no recognition of these drives.  This afternoon I tried my extra flash drives that I don't use much and all were recognized before.  This same problem arouse sometime ago and I was able to fix it, problem is I can't remember how I did it. I happened to all the hard drives listed above and the HP plus the 2 flash drives.  Where and how I ended up fixing it was in some properties box that said the current drive was not enabled, I clicked enable for all of them and the hard drives were good to go.  I thought I would give this forum a look before contacting HP support, the machine is still under warrantee for Hardware issues.

 

Thanks and any information would be appreciated

Kevin

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