If the folder shows empty when you open an external hard drive, a USB flash drive, or a phone, you can disconnect and plug them in again to see whether this problem is caused by proper connection.

Even if nothing goes wrong, you can just go back to where you were if you ever needed to. Disconnect External Hard Drives or USB Drives. Good advice to backup and create restore points. But if there is new firmware, then why not install it (see above). I don't believe the SSD firmware will do anything to address this problem, because it does not affect the SATA controller on the motherboard or Windows, which are the source of the problem. I also believe in updating all my drivers to the most current version from the manufacturer. Ignoring problems and workarounds are not solutions IMHO. But the behavior is not normal and should be corrected if you want a perfect running system. The advice that you can leave it alone and it won't hurt anything is correct. So the generic Windows driver will work with many systems, but higher end systems need the dedicated driver. Some manufacturer's hardware requires 'special' instruction sets in the driver to activate certain features on the motherboard, while others do not. I had this problem on one of my rigs updated to 10 and the AHCI/SATA driver solved it immediately.Īnd we have solved it in the SevenForums many times doing the same thing.

Usb shows up as 2 drives