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

By: Rajesh Kinger

Rajesh Kinger — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:56:12 +0000

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

By: anuruddha

anuruddha — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:21:25 +0000

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

By: Pen drive not detected | Can not open pen drive | My computer does not detect pen drives | TroubleFixers - All about fixing computer troubles

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:23 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Rohit

Rohit — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:07:28 +0000

@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.

By: deepu

deepu — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:57:17 +0000

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?

By: bik erbrom

bik erbrom — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:27:05 +0000

THANK YOU!
The perfect fix, worked great!!

By: sumanth

sumanth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:11:40 +0000

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.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:13:35 +0000

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

By: Killjoy

Killjoy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:25:01 +0000

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.

By: Subin

Subin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:14:08 +0000

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