'I’ve tried all the methods I can think of to connect this USB flash drive to my PC, but my computer still does not show up any signals of the drive. All of my projects from this semester are stored on the drive, how can I get to my files?!” Many people find their USB flash drive or SD card not showing up on Windows PC. A number of reasons can cause a PC to not detect a USB; such as system errors, improper operation, or the disk becoming RAW. We’ll offer several tips to fix your USB flash drive not showing up in Windows 10/8/7 and get all of your valuable data back with ease. PAGE CONTENT: Part 1. Make unreadable or unrecognized USB flash drive detectable Method 1.

Update USB flash driver Extra tip. Using android terminal emulator to change mac address. Reinstall disk driver to make missing USB drive show up in PC again Method 2. Use Disk Management and let computer recognize USB flash drive Part 2. Restore USB flash drive data after making it detectable/recognized by PC Since there are many reasons why a USB will not be detected by a PC, we offer a number of solutions. Follow these methods and get your missing USB drive back without losing any data.

If your flash USB drive cannot recognized on Windows computer, this page we will show you the best way to fix USB errors and get your data back. The power management settings in Windows 10 can also cause a flash drive not showing up the problem. To solve this issue. Then your USB drive may be faulty. You’ll need to format USB drive to.

Make unreadable or unrecognized USB flash drive detectable When a USB flash drive does not show up on your Windows PC, it means that the computer has failed to read the USB drive. Therefore, in order to begin to get a USB drive to show up, we must make the USB readable again. Below, there are two methods for you to force an unrecognized USB drive to show up on PC: update USB flash driver or use Windows’s built-in disk management tool to detect the USB. Update USB flash drive driver • 1. Connect the USB flash drive to PC, right-click on This PC/My Computer and choose Properties. Click 'Device Manager' then expand “Universal Serial Bus controllers”. You'll see a yellow exclamation mark if a driver needs to be updated.

Right-click it and select 'Update driver' or 'update driver software'. Click 'automatically search for driver software online'.

Wait for the driver to be installed, then reboot your computer. After doing so, you can try to reconnect your USB drive to PC and check whether the USB drive can be detected or not. Extra Tip: reinstall disk driver for USB flash drive to make it show up on PC again Sometimes, you may also try to reinstall the disk driver for USB drive when it fails to show up on your PC. This method works on any Windows OS version. Right-click This PC/Computer > Properties > Devices Manager. Click on Disk driver > Right-click on your USB flash drive and choose Uninstall.

Make sure the driver you'll uninstall is named 'Flash Disk'. • Wait patiently and let the process finish. If it takes too long, you can remove the USB flash drive from the PC. Reconnect the USB flash drive to the PC and it will now reinstall new device software. Then the PC will read and recognize your USB drive.