Recent content by Frank McLean

I wasn't able to do that with window disc management so I downloaded EaseUS partitician Master that enabled me to address the drive and partician it so it would show in windows explorer. Problem resolved.

Hi, I've just bought a 2 TB WD Blue Solid State Drive for my Acer Windows 10 Pro 64-bit desktop PC. It shows up in disk management but not in windows explorer. Also, when I go to dotprompt/ diskpart/list volume it doesn't show up. All the advice seems to be about getting it to show up in disk...

Just experienced a freeze that lasted about three minutes.

The reason I didn't see that I had posted before was that I was on pag1 and things had moved on to page 2. Hi GDany, so I went into the BIOS and loaded Optimized Defaults and have saved and exited that. So, I just have to wait and see what transpires now. Thanks again GDany for you help.

For some reason I didn't see the post you made until I responded again about the running chkdsk. Hi GDany, My son built this PC for me about a year and a half ago. No it didn't have an m.2.ssd it had a regular mechanical hard drive. The HHD was then changed to the Crucial MX500 SSD. I did this...

Sorry, I thought I had responded to that. Yes I ran chkdsk /f /r /x it took just a little more than an hour to run. The short 30 second freeze occurred after running the check disk. I haven't used the PC much since then. I'll have to watch for a awhile to see if it fixed the problem. But the...

Hi GDany, I ran from cmd chkdsk /f /r /x, it took only about one hours to run. I still had a brief free since then.

Just got a freeze that lasted about 30 seconds.

Thank you Spirit Wolfe and GDany for your help and suggestions here. I'll just have to wait now to see if this has fixed things. Thank you again.

Okay Spirit Wolfe I did as you indicated. I highlighted the drive in device management and pressed delete key. It asked, 'If I was sure I wanted to uninstall the device?' I clicked on 'Yes'. It then informed me that 'I had to restart the PC now for the changes to take effect. Did I want to...

Thanks for the explanation. I will do that.

I downloaded and installed 'Crucial Storage Executive.' It indicates that the drive is in 'Good Health' and that the latest firmware is installed. 'Drive Details,' indicates the drive is in 'Good Health' with the latest driver installed i.e. 10.0.19041.488 (Standard SATA AHCI. I ran S.M.A.R.T...

A search for updated drivers on windows update showed my drivers are all up to date.

When I go to device manager, I don't see the option to highlight and delete it. Is uninstall the device what you mean? I updated the driver and it indicates that the best one for my device is installed. It indicates that there may be a better on on the manufacturers website or in updates.

As far as I can see, AHCI is what is being used.