Windows 10 doesn't detect any USB Thumnbdrive

[conticreative]

I update to windows 10 a few weeks ago. At the time I wanted to create a restore disk and it instructed me to procure a USB drive. I fetched a 4GB USB drive but it told me it was too small for the purpose and it needed a 8GB Thumbdrive minimum.

I went to Amazon, bought a couple of 16GB thumbdrives (Sandisk) and they arrived today.
I connected both of them into several ports, but aside from the silly sound they did not show up anywhere.

Not visible in Win Explorer
Not Visible in Disk Management
Not visible in Device Manager

Sound still goes off when connecting and disconnecting. Naturally, I tried by back of the machine USB2 and USB3 as well as a hub I have. Again, nothing. They don't register as unformatted disks either.
I restarted, changed ports again and I even tried to use the same Thumbdrive that worked (but was too small) when I first tried creating a restore drive. That too is no longer visible.

Since then, I read this forum (and others), I downloaded USBOblivion to clean up the registry of possible older drivers.

Nothing has worked. None of my USB drives appear.

I am frankly at a loss. I downloaded a ISO image and I'll make a DVD rescue disk, but I really would like to have my thumbdrives working.

Thank you

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, conticreative.

From what it seems, the flash drives are not the problem here, since the one that used to work is having the same problem as well. Try them out with a different device/computer to make sure that the pen drives are indeed working properly. After that you should update or reinstall your Universal Serial Bus (USB) controller's driver, to see if that fixes things up. Make sure that the motherboard's chipset drivers are up to date as well.
Other than that, you could try using a System Restore point (if you haven't disabled System Restore) to bring back your system to a state when you had no issues with USB connected storage devices. Here's how to do that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/windows-10-recovery-options

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD