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

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Trouble:

You may have faced a problem when you insert your pen drive and it gets detected very easily but it doesn’t show up as a drive icon in My Computer. The computer detects the pen drive but data on pen drive is not visible as the pen drive is not visible in My Computer (Explorer).

This problem occurs mainly when windows XP fails to allocate a drive letter to your portable drive(pen drive). It occurs mostly with new pen drives connected to your computer for the first time. If you face such problem then it may not be the pen drive’s fault, rather it may be windows trouble.

Fix:

You can fix this issue by following some simple steps given below.

1. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.

2. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window will appear.

3. On this disk management window, you can see some drives including the portable drive. Right click on your portable drive and click change drive letter and paths.

4. Now a assign a new drive letter which is not being used by any of your drives in My Computer.

5. After assigning the new drive letter your portable drive will show up in my computer with other drives

We hope the above solution will help to fix this trouble.

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Himanshu says, January 27th, 2008   

This fix has resolved my problem.
Thanks.

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Ghanshyam says, February 14th, 2008   

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

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Nianjan says, February 21st, 2008   

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

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G.Ganesh says, April 9th, 2008   

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.

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mads says, June 7th, 2008   

Thanks - problem solved.

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Subin says, July 11th, 2008   

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

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Killjoy says, August 12th, 2008   

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.

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Jessica says, October 3rd, 2008   

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
forexfreedownload.com

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sumanth says, October 7th, 2008   

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.

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