How to FIX USB DRIVE not showing up Windows 10 (Easy Method)

everyone this is Tim from your sick studios today in this video I'm gonna show you how to fix your USB flash drive not displaying on your computer coming up next in this USB tutorial so I have this P&Y flash drive that has been having issues with not displaying on my computer now the first thing we should try is different USB slots on their computer just to confirm there's not a connection issue involved with this now this particular PNY flash drive does not work on my front USB slots I actually have to go around the rear of the computer and plug in otherwise I'll get a malfunction that will display in my device manager so let's go ahead and jump over my computer right now I'll show you some tips if your problem is persisting all right so I have my USB flash drive plugged into my computer let's go to the bottom left-hand side of the screen and go to the start window and then go ahead and right click on it now let's go up to disk management and select this all right so this is disk management and we'll be able to see all our storage devices on our computer from here and you can and if we look through the different discs we can see this zero this is my SSD with my operating system loaded on it and then you can see my external hard drive right here five gigabyte hard drive and then disc four is my removable hard drive and it should say removable right next to it so you know it's your USB flash drive what we want to do in here is to make sure our USB flash drive has a letter assigned to it and I can see it's assigned an H drive right now if we go over this section and then right click will get this little window pop up and we can go to change dry path and letter path and from here we can go to add or change but if it doesn't have a dry path go to add and you can go ahead and assign it a letter from here otherwise if it shares a same letter as a different USB storage device or storage device on your computer go it to change and then assign a different letter to it so you can tell the two apart another thing you can do from here is right-click on this once again and then go to explore and see if this opens up the USB flash drive so I'm able to open it up in here so this is all good let's go on to my next step go back to the bottom left hand side of the screen to the Start menu right click on it now let's go to device manager now let's scroll down to universal serial bus controllers span this and then you'll be able to find your USB storage device down here I'm just gonna go ahead and unplug my USB Andry plug it back in you know pop up on the screen you should be able to see your USB device on here - the USB mass-storage advice right here then you can right click on it and go to properties and you can see the port location in here mine is in the port number four hub number nine and that is my front USB slot on my computer that's where I have my USB device plugged in but if you only have one plugged in it should be a lot easier to find it and locate it so once you locate your USB Mass Storage device is plugged in go ahead and right-click on it and then go to uninstall device and go to honest off so that is now honest all for my computer let's go up to the top window here and then scan for hardware changes and it's gonna look for that USB device on your computer now and as you can see is now displaying on here again so many times just uninstalling your device and then reinstalling on computer and fix a lot of issues that you've been having with it not displaying on your computer so between the connection issues having it plugged into the proper USB slot and then uninstalling the device and then reinstalling it on your computer will help it show up into my computer section on your PC so I hope this video on how to get your flash drive to display on a computer helped you if it did please leave two thumbs up and subscribe my channel down below for more tech help tips coming up next on your sick studios

Channel: YourSixStudios

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Id: iGyccB9istQ

Length: 4min 38sec (278 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 12 2020