USB pen drive detected but doesn’t show up in My Computer

This fix has resolved my problem.
Thanks.

This still has NOT solved my similar problem. The drive does not appear in ‘My Computer’ but i can go into the drive using ‘cmd’ and see the contents as well. I can see the drive in Disk Management and also did change the drive letter but still not seen in My Computer. I started having this problem after I hibernated and then removed the pen drive while it was hibernating. Any clues? Xp with latest updates.

-Ghanshyam

hi dear,

i have 1 GB pen deive not show on driver list.i mean the virus is effected on my pen drive how to solve the problem ?
pls guide me .

nswain

Dear Friend, Did you check your pen drive’s format. Is it NTFS or FAT. Try to keep the same format as your operating system. If nothing seems to be working go to Disk management by right clicking my computer and going into manage then select your pen drive and right click to go into explorer mode. Work as it is. That is what windows means.

[...] We have received so many problems from the readers on Troublefixers.com when they insert pen drives into their computers it got detected but doesn’t show up in my computer. [...]

Thanks - problem solved.

Great: I assigned my usual pendrive letter to something else. And I was unable to see the drive.
Now after this its fine.

Had the same problem. I changed the drive letter, but it still did not work. Then I tried removing the drive letter completely, unplugged USB drive, then plugged it back in, assigned it the default drive letter, and now I can see it in the “My Computer” folder. Weird.

Hi,

I just got a 64MB flash drive about a week ago.

I had been using it through Windows and linux with no problems but today it started acting up. It doesn’t show up in linux or mac and in windows I get the error
“The disk is drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?”

The first weird thing is that it’s shown as only 8MB. The second is that the format always fails.

I have tried using Active Kill Disk to delete everything on the drive but that doesn’t seem to do anything.

Nothing is working.. Anyone have any ideas? I’d like to get this thing working again.

Regards
Jessica
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This still has NOT solved my similar problem. The drive does not appear in ‘My Computer’ but i can go into the drive using ‘cmd’ and see the contents as well. I can see the drive in Disk Management and also did change the drive letter but still not seen in My Computer.

THANK YOU!
The perfect fix, worked great!!

both my pendrives stopped working after i used them in one of my office pc. they simply do not get detected when i insert them into my computer, i have also tried other computers. tell me, if my pendrives are damaged? can they be repaired?

@deepu

this is exactly what happened to my friend’s pen drive. This happens due to a faulty computer’s usb port. a faulty port can apply over-voltage to the pen drive and the pen drive might have burned-out the internal circuit. try get is replaced in warranty, but they may deny to replace it.

[...] This could be due to no free drive letter has been assigned to your pen drive, you can refer to this post to know what to do in that case. [...]

i still having the probelm

regarding the harddisk

in properties it says harddisk is working but it does not display the driver icon ,but it shows in diskmanagement,
without the driver a name

hava hard disk,which is a
maxtor
40 gb
ata
i want to make it portable,so i
brought a usb 2.o ide cable,
and changed the jumper setting in the harddrive into master,after that i
connected
to the computer using the cable,but the harddrive not display in the my
computer,but it display in the device manager,on the other hand it always to
format but nothing will,and sometimes in the error log it
shows,block in the drive

I have 1 GB pen drive nut it’s not detecting my Windows XP system please tell me the solution for this

I have Transcend 1GB JV30 USB pen drive . After installing Win XP SP2 my pen drive does not seem to get detected.
Prior to SP2 installation , my drive used to function normally.
My Computer does not show the removable disk drive ;therefore I cannot read my drive contents ; but my drive LED flashes . Also an icon appears on my system tray (this is the “Safely Remove hardware ” icon ).

Also I can stop the drive normally , as one does .

At my office where I work , my drive gets detected normally , and functions perfectly.

What could the problem be ? I tried reinstalling Win XP SP2 and the motherboard drivers , but in vain .

you deserve a kiss

thank
it worked for me

thanks a lot.

well do you have any idea how to do this on windows vista?

Hi,

I have a 4GB transcend, after giving it to my freinds for some documents transfer my pen drive is not showing any files or folder (also after the unhide option its not showing). But if i try to sacn it with ‘Avast’ or ’super anti spyware’ all files are getting scanned(names appears during scanning) and no virus is Found after scannig.
Also the properties is showing that it has files of 2.45GB but i am not able to see any.

Please tell me what to do regarding this mail me..

Thanx in Advance..

Where we can see portable drive when we open dismanagement window.??

I have a 2GB pendrive its not getting detected..i have checked on other comp also but its not getting detected..

i can’t see portable drive when i open disk management butcan see all other drives…and my problem is still not solved

@anni

this probably means that the drive is faulty, try it on another computer.

I have a kingston 2GB pendrive its not getting detected..i have checked on other comp also but its not getting detected..what cud be d prob??

it works thx

Thanks.

hi, i just want to ask why i can’t open my pen drive it says the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable???

i have a lot of files in there…..help me

thanx in advanced

there IS NO external drive in disk management. what do i change??

hey dude,
i have the same problem. But mine is, my usb drive is not appearing in MY COMPUTER, whenever i go to comp. mgmt, i can not see also the usb drive. what’s the problem? .. tnx to u

something happened to my computer and none of my drives are working…. they get recognised as soon as i plug them in and even open to show the data but a few seconds later they get automatically de-recognised and when i try to open them i get the error msg “please insert disk into drive” …..

it is not even showing in disk management….
is it a virus problem ?

please help !!!!

i have a 4gb per drive its was working fine before the when i connect my pen drive into the usb port but it shows in the task bar icon but it does not shows in my computer and in disk managent aconsole its not working plz help me guys

actually….i dnt knw wats wrong….whn i go to my computers….n d G DRIVE….i cant c d files….but in properties…i can c d disk is half filled…..can u plzz help me out …..as soon as possible….

Hi,

I have been using my transcend 2GB pen drive for readyboost, however i missed out few times doing remove pen drive safely before shutting down, and now my pen drive is detectable nd says unknown device in device manager or says drivers not installed, I ma unable to use this pen drive any more.

Is there any way we can fix this problem, or assume that this pen drives a trash now.

Please advise

DUDE thanks for everthin u SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!! i dont know how to thanks u!!!! may GOD bless you!

now it didnt show up in my computer i tried changing the name again and still it didnt woork plzzz give me any clues about this situation.my flash is a trancend 4gb brand newly bought!!

it is not appeared in the disk management what to do other usb device like digital camera joystick printer etc work properly with same usb/no yellow mark in device manager . also tried to delete regestry but not possible

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