my computer won't see my jump drive even though it acknowledged it.?

Question

I put my usb drive in and the bubble pops up and says it's found new hardware - usb drive.

Then when I go to open windows explorer, there's no sign of it. I even re-booted my computer, but still it didn't see the drive.

Can I change a setting to make it appear so that I can write to it?

Answer 1

Try right clicking the My Computer, then choosing manage. From there, click Disk management. your drive should be listed, but it might need a new drive letter assigned to it. Right click and you should have an option to change the drive letter. Choose a letter that is not already used.

Answer 2

This could be one of two problems: either you have a corrupted driver on your system, or the driver on the drive is bad itself. Has it worked in the past, or never worked?

Try this... go to your device manager (right click My Computer, select properties, hardware, Device Manager) and look for the USB device when it is plugged in, right click on it, select properties, go to the driver tab, and remove the driver.

Then reinsert the thumb drive and see if it reloads the drivers. If this doesn't work, try it on a different machine... it may be the drive, and if so you are probably out of luck.

Keep in mind that even though USB is plug and play, you should NEVER remove a thumb drive without removing it in software first. Right click on the USB device icon on your taskbar and select the device to stop it, and wait until it tells you it's safe to remove it before doing so. Otherwise you can trash the drivers on the device and render it useless.

Best of luck!

Answer 3

My first thought is to check to make sure your USB driver is install. If you have a vendor computer (Gateway, Dell etc) use the CD that came with it to re-install the driver. If you bought a new motherboard, the disk that came with it should have intructions to install the USB driver.
Normally Windows will install the appropiate driver for the device. Check your Windows disk and/or the version of Windows.

Answer 4

Michelle,

Sometimes, your computer will recognize it, but not "see it" when you want it too. If you've tried going itno My Computer and stilkl can't see it, tru logging of f the computer, tehn logging back on. Sometimes, it takes a "boot" in order to recognize the falsh drive.

Hope this helps

Todd

Answer 5

go to start run and type in diskmgmt.msc

you should see it in there highlight it then right click and give it a new drive letter