[SOLVED] Flash drive not showing in my computer but laptop makes a sound when i plug in the flash drive.

[rubber1997]

Hello people! when i plug in flash drive in my laptop, it makes a sound of plugging a device in but flash drive is not appearing in my computer. Few days ago same flash drive was working as i had moved some data from the drive to my laptop. Today its not working, to make sure, i plugged in several other working flash drives but none of them are showing up.

To be honest, a week ago, my laptop was showing no internet even after connecting to my home wifi and it had same usb problem. To fix wifi problem, i ran the network reset. It fixed my wifi problem and my flash drive problem. I was happy as i got rid of both of the issues with one method. But today, my flash drive is not showing up again.

Thanks for the help.

 

[rubber1997]

Well it sounds like a Windows update has irreparably corrupted your laptop and your going to need to do a clean install https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/ hopefully you can use https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...nt-start/862c143f-9239-4e63-8968-635e8ba9efd6 to save some files or use a linux boot disk or something like Gpart to access your laptop and save files.

thanks a lot brother, i appreciate it. will i able to save my files if my usb ports are not working? i think i will have to get this fixed by a professional. or can i try this on my own? thanks a ton for the help.

 

[onespeedbiker]

You should be able to boot from a USB (your BIOS can directly access the USB ports ) so when you boot from a USB you are not using the the corrupted operating system on your hard drive, but the files on the USB. If you can not boot from a USB than you either have a bad USB install, a bad USB or another hardware problem, eg a bad motherboard.