Disabling USB Write Caching...the hard way

[NC37]

Okay so this system has always had utter crap USB performance. I was looking for ways to improve that when I found info on the USB write caching option in the policies tab in Device Manager. This is in Win 10 mind you.

Long story short, the USB flash drive I tried it on will not work on the system. It freezes up the device manager every time I try to do anything to it. So I can't even disable the caching and go back to quick removal mode.

When I just pull the device it instantly gives a page file error and gives Win10's version of the BSOD. When I don't pull the device the system won't restart or shut down without the device being pulled.

So I've got a USB device I'd like to get back to being usable on this system but I can't do it any normal way that is posted online. I somehow need to find a way to go into the registry or something and revert the system policies without having the device inserted.

Trying to find something like that via googling hasn't been turning up many good leads. When I do find registry details, they don't match up with Win10.

The only option that I know would work is reinstalling the OS. That would reset everything and the device would work. I'd rather not do that for one USB drive.

Any tips or ideas?

 

[AsRock]

Maybe this thread, http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...h/0b2f8bd5-0257-47c8-80de-5e09ade77b14?auth=1

 

[RejZoR]

Ever thought that USB drive may be faulty and it's causing system to stall? It wouldn't be the first time I'd see that...

 

[Mussels]

yeah, maybe its just dead?

 

[qubit]

Sounds like a bad USB drive. Try another.

I've got an old 256MB one that takes Windows about 30 seconds bring up the drive letter, where it used to be almost immediate before. It can read and write it OK though.

 

[NC37]

The USB drive works fine in my laptop and every other computer. The problem is not with the drive, it's with Windows that has set the driver to see the drive in a way that renders it like this. I need to reset the driver/settings without the drive hooked up so it'll reinstall the driver and go with the stock quick removal mode.

Cache setter, I'll have to try that. Thanks.

 

[Athlon2K15]

If its AMD I'm not sure they even have "native" USB 3.0 so you can't really compare performance between your two systems.

 

[NC37]

Just asked M$ and they told me the fix for the issue was to uninstall the USB host controller and let the OS reinstall it. Sure enough, it works now.

 

[R-T-B]

Just asked M$ and they told me the fix for the issue was to uninstall the USB host controller and let the OS reinstall it. Sure enough, it works now.

You mean MS tech support actually knew something?

Will, I'll be damned...

 

[Mussels]

that's gotta be a first

 

[DarthBaggins]

Hell must've frozen over

 

[RejZoR]

that's gotta be a first

I hear ya. Every single bloody time I've checked MS groups pages and MVP pages, they always asked users with problems these stupid unrelated generic questions providing stupid generic answers. Like absolutely useless.