You can get more specific steps to update drives on Windows These steps will update your device drivers. If your error was caused due to outdated drivers, it would be fixed. The power management settings in Windows 10 can also cause a flash drive not showing up the problem. To solve this issue,. This will solve the power management issue that may cause Windows not to recognize a flash drive. To update the Windows system on Windows 7 would help the computer to recognize a USB device, follow these steps:.
This will fix issues with your USB root hub, and hopefully, Windows will recognize your flash drive. If you've tried all the above and nothing works, then your USB drive may be faulty.
You'll need to format the USB drive to get it to work again. To format USB drive,. Important: Formatting will erase all data from your USB drive. Make sure to restore and backup your data before you try formatting your USB device. If you can't access your USB drive data and backup data files, you still can restore your data as the following solution:. After fixing the USB device malfunctioned and not recognized the error in Windows, if the above-mentioned solution can help you and work, you can get a USB drive data recovery program to help you access the drive and get your data back.
Recoverit Data Recovery can help you recover data from a USB flash drive, even the device got corrupted or damaged, or formatted. The software can access the drive and recover data back. Step 1. Step 2. The USB recovery software will start scanning the device, it will take a while to search the lost data. Step 4. Wait for the driver to be updated. Then, reboot your computer.
This method can also be helpful in solving disk-related issues like "The system cannot find the file specified". In the prompt asking you to confirm the removal, click OK.
Wait patiently and let the process finish. After the computer restarts, the driver will be automatically installed. If your USB shows up as unallocated space in Disk Management after updating or reinstalling the driver, you are recommended to create a new partition to make it ready for data storage. Your USB drive should now show up in Windows as usual. You can copy the files you recovered back to your USB if you want. If the drive letter of your USB drive is the same as one of the drive letters of your computer's hard disk partition, you won't be able to see it in Windows File Explorer.
In this case, you need to assign a new drive letter to your USB drive. Here, the file system error refers to an unsupported file system or a damaged file system caused by misoperations or improper formatting.
When you format your USB drive, all data on it will be deleted. Therefore, you should first protect your data by making a copy of it. This program works even when your USB drive is not accessible. Connect USB flash drive to your computer. Click "Scan" button to start looking for lost files on PC. When the scan completes, you can apply the "Filter" feature or the click the search box to quickly find the lost files from USB. Preview the files you want to recover.
Click the "Recover" button to restore files. Check video tutorial here. After storing your data in a safe place, you need to format the USB drive to convert the file system back to NTFS or other Windows-compatible file systems. Open the Start menu, search for Computer Management , and click Computer Management in the search results. Click Disk Management in the bar on the left-hand side, then find the device in the drive viewer. Right-click on your USB flash drive and select Format to format the drive and make it usable.
Are your hard drives, be it new or old, internal or external, not showing up in File Explorer or Disk Management? Was this reply helpful? Yes No.
Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I then exited from the back-up thinking that all was OK with the back-up except for the missed file. Also, when I see it as Disk 1, it is online with a blue line but when I right-click on the blue line, all options including partition information or properties are grayed out except for Help.
That is why I replaced it with the brand new external hard drive and I now suspect a corrupt DLL or some other software glitch that caused the problem.
The backup utility probably did this. The blank File System is also an issue If there is nothing important on the drive, delete the partition and reformat it.
You may have no choice anyway. If windows won't do this, get a 3rd party Partitionong or Disk Management program of some kind. The drive was formatted on a Dell XP pro, and is sensed but not visible in those machines, period. I previously had 2 Dells and I wrote in ink on that drive format , after which time both Dells failed.
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