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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh
I've never used Pro, but apparently you're not the only one seeing some hinky behavior with USB drives so thought it might be related.
Do you have the full Pro license? (I think those mini-PC's come with a cheap version limited to small boot drives?)
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The Lenovo is not a mini-PC. It's a full laptop with 15.6" screen.
And as mentioned, the Lenovo came with Win10
Home, not Pro.
I have the Win10 Pro upgrade
media, which I got back when Win10 was a free MS Upgrade. I do
not have a valid Win7 or Win8.1
license key to upgrade []from[/i]. Getting Win10 Proon the box would mean spending a hundred bucks for a license upgrade from Home. Er, no. It isn't worth that level of expense.
And I just found a solution, which is a WTF of its own.
Open This PC on the laptop, with a thumb drive plugged in. Right click the thumb drive. Select a right-click menu choice "Open as Portable Device".
That opens a new window with the drive in it, and I can drill down into drive contents and copy things to the laptop from it.
That menu choice exists in Win10 Pro but I have not had cause to use it. On Pro, I can simply open removable drives as drives and copy to and from them.
(I use admin accounts on both Home and Pro.)
Thanks!
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Dennis