I was having same issue I tried 2 other USB drives and only 1 of them was able to read the data so I could transfer to my laptop.
Error 0X800701B1 - how to fix it?
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Having problem with external hdd drive and after scanned and fixed, problem keeps appearing. Furthermore another error message when transferring files Error 0X800701B1. Kindly advise how to fix it.
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2020-04-06T18:34:36+00:00 I've been having the same issue.
I was able to resolve it by going to device manager, finding the external drive, right clicking the drive and then uninstalling the device. I then restarted the PC, unplugged the device and then plugged it back in. I was then able to copy files to the drive.
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Anonymous
2020-04-07T17:04:09+00:00 This worked for me! Thank you so much, the error code was driving me crazy
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Anonymous
2020-04-18T06:42:38+00:00 I had the same error when installing on a fresh internal SSD disk on older ASUS F550CC laptop.
It only installed 3% and the error came.
After several attempts I swapped the USB ports of mouse and USB memory Win10 installing stick.
Then every thing went smooth.
Sounds strange but it worked.
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Anonymous
2020-04-23T19:57:16+00:00 I have tried the hard disk in 2 laptops and they give me the same error, it's a 2,5 HDD, the big ones work OK, here I let the captures: