A USB flash drives stores all its data in the memory similar to a hard drive. The operating system can, later on, fetch this data when required to be accessed. There can be various issues that may turn your USB drive data inaccessible. Such as if the drive is unmounted improperly from the port then it can lead to data corruption. Another reason for the stores’ data corruption can be invalid data in the Master Boot Record (MBR) or Partition Boot Record (PBR) or directory structure on the USB drive.
There can be various other reasons that may turn your USB not working. This may happen either due to physical corruption or logical corruption. The common hardware/physical issues are broken stems and connectors, dead drives (no power supply), broken circuit or NAND gate, not recognised, RAW, need to format, not accessible, and Dead Drives, etc.
Steps To Recover :
- Download and install Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery – professional.
- Connect the problem USB drive you’re trying to recover data.
- Under Select Location’, your problem USB device will be listed on the predefined label on it D:\ or E:\.
- Select the drive and click on ‘Scan’ button and let software begin scanning the drive.
- The software scans the media and lists all the recoverable files as well as lets you see the preview of files ready to recover.
- Choose any or all the desired files and folders and click on ‘Recover’ button.
To Fix an Undetectable USB Flash Drive:
Test the USB port: You may not be able to use your USB drive because of some problems with the USB port, not with the USB drive. So, before performing any repair of the USB drive also make sure that the USB port is working fine.
Steps to test the USB port: Remove the USB drive, reboot your computer, and test the USB drive again. See if it works. It is possible that one port may not be working but all others are working fine. So try each port of your computer. If this doesn’t help, try the USB drive on some other computer.
Sometimes, the Installed copy of Windows OS may not be able to recognise your USB drive due to some USB version limitations.
You can Fix an Undetectable USB Flash Drive:
Drive Recognition:
- Go to Start> Control Panel> Device Manager
- Expand the list next to “Disk Drives” option.
- You can see a down facing arrow over your USB drive. Double click it and choose the option to “Enable Device”.
- Click Next.
- Click ‘Next’ again.
- Finally, click Finish.
After this, you need to assign the drive letter. To do so follow given steps:
- Go to Start>Control Panel>System and Security>Administrative Tools then choose “Computer Management.”
- Right, click the USB drive. Select the option to “Change Drive Letter and Paths.”
- Click ADD and then click OK.
- Now, assign any available drive letter to the USB drive by clicking it.
- Right, click the USB to designate it as “Online.”
If this fails, use the Windows automated “Fix it For Me” service can resolve the issue. If this also doesn’t help, then modifying the system registry will help you tackle the issue. We wouldn’t suggest you go for this option as it may harm your OS.
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