Windows 10 doesn’t recognize WD Elements. No new drivers listed. Any suggestions?

I’m having the same problem. Once I upgraded to Windows 10, I noticed my external HDD is no longer detected. I went to my Device Manager and noticed there was an icon indicating an issue with my USB Mass Storage device which I assume is my external HDD. Also, my device isn’t being read by Disk Manag…

Unfortunately Windows 10 still has a lot of bugs in it because MS was in a big hurry to release it. Also I am not a fan of upgrades they frequently have problems. can you post a screen shot of the Device Manager? Joe

I also am having massive issues with Win 10 & Elements drives. Just upgraded from Win 7. The drives are showing in disk manager as active but RAW not NTFS. I have tried them on another Win 10 machine & they read fine, NTFS. Its just my main PC which cant read them. Tried everything, uninstalling in …

If they work on other Windows 10 machines the problem is obviously the one machine. Upgrades are notorius for causing problems. Try going into Device Manager find your Elements delete the driver for it, disconnect the Elements then reboot the system and reconnect the Elements. That should load a fre…

Having the same problem, but the uninstall the device>disconnect it>reboot pc>reconnect device process still results in unrecognized device.

Same here! Updated from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 External Hard Drive Western Digital WDBAAU0030HBK-01 Formatted as NTFS, shown as “RAW” in disk management reattaching Drive-Name / Drive-Letter did not resolve the problem reinstalling the WD USB Drivers did not resolve the problem Drive is recogni…

Up front: no solution It seems not to be limited to Elements though. I have a 3TB MyBook that is not listed in Windows 10 either. So, I have 4 WD-external drives, 2 are being displayed, 2 not. The ‘My Book’ 3TB drive is my backup drive, so until that is fixed I can’t run backups. Initially none…

To sum it up: Some WD Volumes work, some do not work. Maybe we can compare the drivers. I am running my Western Digital WD Western Digital Desktop 3TB WDBAAU0030HBK-01 on a Dell Optiplex 740 DT. The Volume is recognized after plugging it in. If I try to open it, the following message promts (incorr…

Hi there, today I -again- upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. during the setup the external drives were switched off. after the upgrade and after some reboots (had to re-install my security suite) and after some time, I started to switch them on, one by one, but waiting in between until the d…

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