New Built PC: Won't read USB Flash Drives

[ashmxm]

Hi,

I recently built a new PC without an optical drives with intent to install the OS and drivers through USB. I installed the OS fine from a External Drive onto my SSD. When I logged on etc I plugged in my ethernet cable planning to download drivers from online when I realised and it showed the driver for the LAN wasn't installed. Then I decided to download the drivers on my laptop put them onto a USB Flash Drive and move them across but the OS won't detect the USBs. When I go into BIOS it recognises them and can see them but when I'm up on Windows 7 and go into My Computer they are nowhere to be found (including in Computer>Manage>Storage).

Any ideas?

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Have you tried the USBs at the back of the motherboard too? And it definitely isn't showing up in disk manager at all?

 

[ashmxm]

Have you tried the USBs at the back of the motherboard too? And it definitely isn't showing up in disk manager at all?

Yes every USB input and not showing up

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Have you tried the USBs at the back of the motherboard too? And it definitely isn't showing up in disk manager at all?

Yes every USB input and not showing up

Hmm... That's odd. Have you tried a different USB stick?

 

[ashmxm]

Have you tried the USBs at the back of the motherboard too? And it definitely isn't showing up in disk manager at all?

Yes every USB input and not showing up

Hmm... That's odd. Have you tried a different USB stick?

Yes a normal 4GB stick and 1TB external hard drive, neither are detected by the OS

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Have you tried the USBs at the back of the motherboard too? And it definitely isn't showing up in disk manager at all?

Yes every USB input and not showing up

Hmm... That's odd. Have you tried a different USB stick?

Yes a normal 4GB stick and 1TB external hard drive, neither are detected by the OS

OK. If they do show up in the BIOS, I would say it's most likely drivers. Try using a linux live installation on the PC - if it detects the drive, copy over the drivers to the windows HDD and then install them once you boot back into windows.

 

[ashmxm]

Have you tried the USBs at the back of the motherboard too? And it definitely isn't showing up in disk manager at all?

Yes every USB input and not showing up

Hmm... That's odd. Have you tried a different USB stick?

Yes a normal 4GB stick and 1TB external hard drive, neither are detected by the OS

OK. If they do show up in the BIOS, I would say it's most likely drivers. Try using a linux live installation on the PC - if it detects the drive, copy over the drivers to the windows HDD and then install them once you boot back into windows.

Good idea! Thanks for that, I will try it out and if Linux doesn't detect them either I'll let you know

 

[PizzaTheHutt]

Sounds good! Keep us updated

 

[ashmxm]

Sounds good! Keep us updated

Massive Thanks! Works Really good idea btw

 

[ashmxm]

i have the exact issue as you but i dont understand what linux live installation? Does that mean i have to wipe my hard drive and install linux there or wut...

Check out this guide: https://www.linux.com/learn/live-booting-linux

It's a way of running the Linux OS off of a flash drive