Question Samsung T7 Shield seen by W7 as ATA hdd. Portable to what?

[Persister]

I used only 10% of a T7 on a W10 pc for backup. But when I usb it in a W7-64 I'm asked to format, told the disk is dirty, and can see it is treated as a lettered hdd. The suggested fixes on web, starting with chkdsk, are not anything I would do to a working portable ssd.

Samsung is either stumped or has outsourced support to zombies, nothing done on a ticket for 2 weeks.

 

[fzabkar]

If Windows is prompting you to format a drive, it means that it can see the partition but doesn't recognise the file system.

Could we see the Partitions tab in DMDE?

https://dmde.com/

 

[Persister]

If Windows is prompting you to format a drive, it means that it can see the partition but doesn't recognise the file system.

Could we see the Partitions tab in DMDE?

https://dmde.com/

Thanks, but I don't know DMDE.* T7 comes pre-formated and works fine in W10. All operations OK and chkdsk no errors. Format is a FAT called ex-FAT, proprietary to Sams I believe. This seems to be all about W7. Are you saying DMDE will do diagnosis, non-destructive, presumably in the W7 machine (?), but bypassing the OS? What would that tell me? I don't even want to chkdsk in W7 bc IME Windows immediately starts to fix any errors it finds. Even if no damage, how will it work when I bring it back to W10? It's supposed to be portable storage.

*I appreciate all suggestions but I no longer DL and do learning curve on stuff just bc it's free.

Meantime, after 2 weeks waiting, Samsung (a bot?) asks what happens when I try format in W7. SMH. SMH.

 

[fzabkar]

exFAT is an MS file system. It was supported in Win 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

As for DMDE, just launch it, select your drive, and then show us the Partitions tab. DMDE won't write to your drive unless you insist on overriding its prompts and protections.

DMDE is perfectly safe. Ironically it is Microsoft's tool, CHKDSK, which is potentially data destructive.

This is what we want to see:

http://users.on.net/~fzabkar/DMDE/DMDE_Elements-8TB_Partitions.jpg