How To Fix Issues With Usb Drive Not Showing In My Computer

okay if you're using Windows 7 or Windows 8 and you've plugged in your USB flash drive but it's not being displayed in you know my computer uh the first thing I would suggest that you do is to unplug the drive from the current uh USB port that it's plugged into and then plug it into an alternate Port okay you can try it you know with an alternate port on the front of the system if that's what you're using now uh if that doesn't work go ahead and unplug the uh uh flash drive from the front of the system and then plug it into the rear of the system system all right try each Port until you find one that works okay now if that doesn't work for you all right the next thing that I would suggest you do is we're going to need to go to the control panel now this is a Windows 8 system so I'm going to use the charms bar now if you are using Windows 7 you're just going to go to the lower right and click on the Pearl and then control panel all right I'm going to click on search since I'm using Windows 8 type in control or portion of it and then click on control pan on the left once control panel opens I'm going to go and change the view by to large icons okay and at this time what we're going to need to do all right is to we are going to click on administrative tools all right and then we're going to click on computer management and we'll give this snap on just a second to open because definitely not the fastest Snap-on okay once it opens what we're going to do is we're going to go to the left all right and we're going to click on under storage we're going to click on dis management and we'll give it just a few seconds to display I'm going to go ahead and maximize this all right now pretty much what you're going to do is try to locate all right uh look in this list all right what this list contains it's going to contain all of your physical uh drives you know the physical drives connected to to your system all right now this one is a virtual machine so I have virtual I have a you know a C drive okay now this one dis one this is removable yours will most likely it's going to say removable okay all right this is the flash drive now if yours uh is displayed here all right uh the first thing I would check is to make sure that it has a drive letter okay easiest way to handle that is to you can just right click uh in the in the area over here to the right and then click on change Drive a pass and if it does not have one go ahead and click uh add all right all right if it already has a drive letter just click change and then just change it here all right but it has have a drive letter for it to be displayed okay all right okay now if uh uh after that it's still you go right back to the computer and it still it's not displayed one thing I would try here is from this section right where you can actually see the drive here right click it and then select explore and see if you can open the Drive okay if you can't open the Drive uh it may be a driver issue okay now if that's the case I'm going to go aad and close this and then I'm going to go back to the control panel and this time though I'm going to go to system and then I'm going to click on Device Manager in the upper left all right I'm going to go ahead and max out the device manager and then when I'm going to do is check uh I'm going to expand the disc drives okay now what you're going to do is locate your USB flash drive here all right you might yours actually might have a yellow Mark or maybe a a red X over it okay so what you're going to do is you're going to right click it and select uninstall and then okay on the confirm all right now after you've done that easiest way is to go to the top of the tree right click and then uh click scan for Hardware changes all right and it should install it should reinstall your drive okay and uh the drive automatically popped up actually here all right and at this time you're uh um that actually from you know running through those procedures one of those actually should resolve uh you know your issue with the uh your external drive not actually being displayed within my computer all right and that completes this tutorial

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Keywords: USB Flash Drive (Media Format), Computer (Industry), Not, USB (Invention), usb not showing, Windows 7 (Operating System), Windows 8 (Operating System), usb drive not showing

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Length: 4min 33sec (273 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 14 2014