- May 19, 2011
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Does anyone know how to get a USB 3.x device to connect to a Windows box consistently at USB 3.x, as opposed to Windows inexplicably downgrading the speed to 2.0?
I was doing a drive clone via USB, I definitely used a USB 3.0 capable port, and Win10 decided to run at USB 2.0. As the transfer was destined to take nearly three hours at that rate, I decided to safe-disconnect the drive, reconnect it in the same Windows session, reboot Windows, then I got USB 3.x connectivity.
Or if my first question isn't possible (I suspect it isn't), is there a way to query Windows to find out what Windows is allowing the device to communicate as?
I'll go have a poke around Device Manager now to see if there are any giveaways about the connecting speed.
I was doing a drive clone via USB, I definitely used a USB 3.0 capable port, and Win10 decided to run at USB 2.0. As the transfer was destined to take nearly three hours at that rate, I decided to safe-disconnect the drive, reconnect it in the same Windows session, reboot Windows, then I got USB 3.x connectivity.
Or if my first question isn't possible (I suspect it isn't), is there a way to query Windows to find out what Windows is allowing the device to communicate as?
I'll go have a poke around Device Manager now to see if there are any giveaways about the connecting speed.