I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate and have attached multiple external drives, and flash drives. I access this PC via Remote Desktop Out of all the drives attached, only the Western Digital 1TB portable seems to work, all other drives I attach, whether they are USB Flash Drives, or a Buffalo 500GB portable drive all detect, start to work and then error saying no longer available and report paging errors. All of these "failed" drives work perfectly on other systems when accessed locally Has anyone ever seen an issue access external drives on a remote PC using Remote Desktop? I'm trying to use these disks to expand storage and backups, but they keep disconnecting. I also then have to reboot the PC to be able to re-use the USB port the drive was attached to

Hi, In fact, you could configure specific remote desktop settings: How can I use my devices and resources in a Remote Desktop session? Hope it helps. Alex ZhaoPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, Unfortunately that doesn't help and the point of the query was missed. I have a PC set up with external drives that I RDP to from another PC. The external drives attached to the PC start causing paging issues within the RDP session and then become unavailable. If I remove the drives from the Remote PC, or access them locally on the Remote PC rather than via RDP, then the drives work fine Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? As I said, so far I've only found one drive that doesn't cause the errors when being accessed via Remote Desktop Thanks

Short answer, external drives are flaky. I have an external one from WD that locks up whenever i run a virtual machine on it. I beleive it has something to do with its auto-spin down "feature" they hard coded into the firmware of it to save a few cents on power. You might want to look into getting a normal drive, one that wasnt sold as an external drive, and getting an external drive enclosure, or maybe a simple usb->3.5"(or whatever size/interface your using) converter to help eliminate the possibility of a "feature" turning off your drives.