WD MY Passport Ultra Metal showing as local disk in My Computer

I ran the Windows Experience Index today as I was experiencing some slowdowns.  My disk access score went down quite a bit, and I think it’s because My Passport is recognized as a local partition.  Furthermore, in Speccy, the external drive is shown as a “(USB (SATA))” device.  As I said before, I don’t have anything important on there, but I plan to use it for photo backup, so I’d like to get this thing back to normal sometime soon.  I will try different configurations in BIOS to see what’s up.