i need help guys

[heniman]

please my 4GB flash is not recognized in any computer and i need to fix it because it contains my research papers information

 

[cuzican86x]

please my 4GB flash is not recognized in any computer and i need to fix it because it contains my research papers information

If you have another flash drive try it and see if it works. If it does not it is most likely the hard drive. I recently had to replace my hard drive when my computer stopped recognizing my flash drive.

 

[someguynamedmatt]

^Flash drives not detecting shouldn't be indicative of an HDD failure - there was probably a problem within your Windows which was reset when you did a reinstall onto the new hard drive.

Check if the flash drive is shown within either a) the Windows Device Manager, or b) the system BIOS. If both of these fail, then the hardware itself isn't being detected, has likely failed, and you're out a flash drive. Unfortunately, flash drives fall into the same catagory as disc drives these days - cheap for the sake of being cheap; it's a good idea to always keep a backup copy, as things like this do happen.

If the drive is detected, we can go from there, as it may have either been damaged by improper removal (there is a grain of truth the the 'safely remove your hardware' that Windows pesters you with) or some other software related failure like the loss of a drive letter assignment.