Flash drive not showing up in "My computer"

[Patrik Hlavenka]

I tried all USB ports with no success. Computer does make the sound suggesting that the device is connected but nothing shows up on screen. I tried to connect other devices and they all work fine, I tried to plug the drive to another Laptop and it showed up there. It is reocgnized in computer management but not in DIsk drivers but in USB controllers as Mass Storage but it shows an exclamation mark. I tried to klick on drivers update but it doesn't work, it says that it found the driver but the access was denied I'm desperate because I need that drive tomorrow for my school project, Thanks for any help. I have an HP 255 G1, WIndows 7 Ultimate

 

[kenrivers]

Hopefully someone else will chime in who can be of more help than I have been. I'll keep following this thread and post if I find something that would help.

 

[Patrik Hlavenka]

SOmeone suggested me reinstalling my motherboard and chipset drivers, I'd love to do that but I have trouble finding them asi HP Website doesn't have anything, can someone help me with that? The motherboard type is Hewlett Packard 188b

 

[kenrivers]

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[Patrik Hlavenka]

I found this too but is there the driver I need? I can't see it

 

[kenrivers]

I found this too but is there the driver I need? I can't see it

Have you tried the HP 2005pr USB 2.0 Port Replicator driver?

 

[Hamid Irfan]

Thank you so much for this help, my device is working properly now

 

[pkpiyushkamble]

I tried this method and it's works...
Connect your pen drive which is not located in my computer. Go to device manager - universal serial bus controller -right click on USB mass storage device which is located by yellow exclamation mark- properties - driver- update driver - select Browse my computer for drivers software - select Let me pick from a list device drivers on my computer - double click on USB mass storage device shown in model box-and the problem is solved...

 

[dmr12345]

You need to assign it a drive letter.

Go to:
Control Panel
Admin tools
Computer management
Disk management

You should see your drive that you can't access. Right click on the drive header and select 'Online'

If it is already online, then assign it a drive letter that isn't already in use.

Now you should see it in your 'My Computer area' and you should be able to access it.

 

[dmr12345]

my flash drive does not show up under admin disk management
it is not computer but flash drive
computer keeps making sound like it is trying to recognize it
but nothing
how do i get the date off this device
and what is best flash drive to store data

 

[Ariel_2]

Search for device manager under control panel
Look for "Other Devices"
Click it
Then right click on the file, select update driver software.

 

[AetherElemental]

I had this problem too. Turned out I'd mixed up my mouse's Bluetooth dongle with the pen drive. D'oh!

 

[honey_]

You need to assign it a drive letter.

Go to:
Control Panel
Admin tools
Computer management
Disk management

You should see your drive that you can't access. Right click on the drive header and select 'Online'

If it is already online, then assign it a drive letter that isn't already in use.

Now you should see it in your 'My Computer area' and you should be able to access it.

 

[Matara Kankanange]

You need to assign it a drive letter.

Go to:
Control Panel
Admin tools
Computer management
Disk management

You should see your drive that you can't access. Right click on the drive header and select 'Online'

If it is already online, then assign it a drive letter that isn't already in use.

Now you should see it in your 'My Computer area' and you should be able to access it.

 

[Matara Kankanange]

Hi RCguitarist,

For me it was in

Control Panel
Admin tools
Computer management
Disk Drives

USB was disabled there and just enabled it.

Your comment guided me there though.
So thank you so much.

 

[kmotamed]

You need to assign it a drive letter.

Go to:
Control Panel
Admin tools
Computer management
Disk management

You should see your drive that you can't access. Right click on the drive header and select 'Online'

If it is already online, then assign it a drive letter that isn't already in use.

Now you should see it in your 'My Computer area' and you should be able to access it.

Nope, it is not showing up there either.

 

[owen_id]

Hello All,

I am facing the same issue with Toshiba Transmemory Flash Drive 16GB, it is not recognized on my windows 7. My C: and D: harddisk drives are always showing but the flash drive is not showing... I can see that the drive is online under Disk Management but I am wondering why I can't see it when I click on my computer

 

[E-50]

Hello All,

I am facing the same issue with Toshiba Transmemory Flash Drive 16GB, it is not recognized on my windows 7. My C: and D: harddisk drives are always showing but the flash drive is not showing... I can see that the drive is online under Disk Management but I am wondering why I can't see it when I click on my computer

just like any flash memory device controller can die, and device becomes inaccessible
if you need data recovered then you would need something like this:

 

[JdogAwesome]

You need to assign it a drive letter.

Go to:
Control Panel
Admin tools
Computer management
Disk management

You should see your drive that you can't access. Right click on the drive header and select 'Online'

If it is already online, then assign it a drive letter that isn't already in use.

Now you should see it in your 'My Computer area' and you should be able to access it.

Nope, it is not showing up there either.

Happened to me too. Showed up on Minitool Partition Wizard, and I changed the drive letter from there. Works fine for me.

Used Minitool Partition Wizard to wipe the drive then format it worked great for me! I originally put 2 flash drives in Raid 0 together on a Mac and I didn't have access to the Mac to undo it so I had to do it on my PC, this is what worked for me!

 

[NOT_PROVIDED_726]

You need to assign it a drive letter.

Go to:
Control Panel
Admin tools
Computer management
Disk management

You should see your drive that you can't access. Right click on the drive header and select 'Online'

If it is already online, then assign it a drive letter that isn't already in use.

Now you should see it in your 'My Computer area' and you should be able to access it.

 

[NOT_PROVIDED_726]

and me also i have that problem but i try your way but it does not work because it show the removable disk but the space show 0MB but the flash driver have 32GB Please help me

 

[Ehsan_4]

I had exactly the same problem. I finally found the solution.
Go to Device Manager, then under Disk Drives you will see your flash drive name.
Right click on it, then choose uninstall.
Then remove your flash drive and put it in again.

 

[Bobbitz44]

thanks! I will try it

The first rule of . . . computing is reboot. I had the same thing happened. Flash drive didn't work on one computer but worked fine on others. Reboot, Sparky. All this other crap about needing to know the manufacturer etc. is someone who has way too much time and not enough sense. Probably some dopey guy. Girls rule! See if that works.

 

[ChrisLawn]

I hope this is useful to someone. I tried virtually all the above suggestions but nothing worked for me. I then tried renaming the memory stick and it now works perfectly!