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USB Flash Drive Not Recognized – Don’t Worry Too Much 5 years 18 weeks ago

When you find your USB flash drive not recognized by computer or Xbox 360, please stay calm and choose the correct method to deal with it.

USB interface is used more and more widely in daily life and work. As you may know, many of our frequently used devices, such as printer, camera, mp3, mp4, reader and game console, tend to have a USB interface. This helps to eliminate unnecessary troubles users often come across when connecting USB flash drive with computer or other devices. In a word, USB interface makes exchanging data among different computers and devices a breeze.

USB flash drive not recognized 1 However, there are odds users will be stuck in USB flash drive not recognized error. If you search this in google, you’ll find you’ve got plenty of companions. How such problem is generated? Is there any way to fix it? In the following content, we’ll answer those questions one by one. All you need to remember is: please stay calm no matter what happens since a cool head is the decisive factor to make you quickly go out of the woods.

Some people ask why their USB3.0 flash drive is not recognized in computer. Is it repairable? If you never hear of or don’t know much about USB3.0 flash drive, it’s ok; we’ll introduce it briefly.

Follow This To Recover Data From Failed Flash Drive ASAP 3 years 5 weeks ago

When compared to the internal hard drive, the USB flash drive has many advantages; for instance, it can be carried around everywhere so that we can get access to the files we need anytime. Besides, the USB flash drive can be connected to any computer (both desktop and laptop) easily.

Yet, no matter how convenient the flash drive is, it has one big drawback: the flash drive is more fragile than commonly used hard drive. Thus, a lot of people saying that their flash drive is damaged and they are looking for an effective way to recover data from failed flash drive. Is it possible to restore files from dead USB flash drive? Can I finish the broken flash drive data recovery work alone?

SecureUSB BT Flash Drive - A Drive Can Keep Your Data Safe 1 year 43 weeks ago

Due to the good performance and large capacities, the portable SSDs have taken more and more market in the world. While flash drives seem to be less and less important. But, you still need to use USB flash drives in some cases.For example, when you need to use a shuttle device to save your documents, images, movies, etc and want to take the device by your hand, the USB flash drive is still your best choice. And when it is convenient, you may also want security.

Here, we need to talk about SecureDrive. SecureDrive has applied the technology which has been used in the SecureDrive BT to its flash drive. And the drive is named as SecureUSB BT flash drive.

Actionable Techniques For WD Hard Drive Not Recognized Error 4 years 33 weeks ago

It’s quite a common thing that you find your drive can’t be recognized after connecting it to computer. This happens more and more frequently, isn’t it? What we know for sure is that your hard drive stays in trouble when it is not showing up, or failing to be opened up in your computer.

So, what causes the popular WD hard drive not recognized error? We can’t say the exact reasons since the WD external hard drive not showing up issue is actually very complex. Yet, we summarize the possible reasons for you. And afterwards, we’ll give our suggestions to help you recover data from hard drive that is not recognized.

If USB Drive Is Not Working – How To Get Data Off It 3 years 21 weeks ago

As you can easily find, USB device is widely used among people mainly because of 2 reasons:
a). USB device is easy to carry around and used at any time;
b). the price of USB device is decreasing, while the capacity of it is increasing.

But, this also brings much trouble to us. Let’s see an example:
Oops, the USB flash drive is not working – “A friend of mine brought me the USB flash drive which saves all of her school work to me. Seriously, everything she has done so far this semester is here. Most importantly, she doesn’t have a backup for those files.”

What Is I/O Device Error? How Do I Fix I/O Device Error? 3 years 39 weeks ago

Drive is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
What is an I/O device error? Can I fix "the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" without data loss?
An I/O device error (short for Input/Output device error) happens when Windows is not able to perform an input/output action (such as reading or copying data) when it is trying to access a drive or disk. And, this error can occur with different types of hardware devices or media such as external hard drive, SD card, USB flash drive, and CD&DVD discs.

And, MiniTool Power Data Recovery can help to recover data from drive with I/O device error without affecting the original data.
Prepare work:
1) Connect your drive to computer.
2) Download MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
3) Install it on drive.
Step 1. Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery, and then select Damaged Partition Recovery.
Step 2. Select the drive you want to recover, and then click Full Scan button to scan the entire device sector by sector to furthest find desired data.
Step 3. Check all needed files, and then click Save button to store them on a safe place.

6 Methods to Fix The "I/O Device Error" Problem
Solution 1: Ensure the storage device connection is working correctly
Solution 2: Download, install or update your device driver
Solution 3: Change drive letter
Solution 4: Check and repair disk errors on drive
Solution 5: Change the transfer mode for the drive in IDE channel properties
Solution 6: Format the hard drive

Solved - External Hard Drive Not Recognized 3 years 31 weeks ago

Toshiba external HDD not recognized in windows 10?
Have you ever encountered the same problem? Why is my external hard drive not showing up on Windows 10? What do you do if your Toshiba external hard drive is not recognized?
As a matter of fact, the "external hard drive not showing up" issue can be caused by various reasons, including dead USB ports, driver issues in Windows, using the wrong file system, and so on. Thus, the solutions are varied.
Solution 1 - Check USB Port and Check for the Driver Updates
Solution 2 - Change Drive Letter and Path
Solution 3 - Partitioning the Drive
If you see the external hard drive which is not recognized by Windows is full of "unallocated space," you'll want to create a new partition on it. This will allow Windows and other operating systems to recognize and use this HDD.
However, creating partition will overwrite the original data stored on the external hard drive which is not showing up. Therefore, before creating a new partition, you have to recover its lost data.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a green, professional and all-in-one data recovery software, is recommended here. This professional data recovery program offers wizard-like interfaces as well as simple operations to help users quickly recover lost data from drive that is not recognized by Windows.
After recovering lost data, you can create a new partition on the unallocated space to make Windows recognize your external hard drive.
Solution 4 - Initialize Disk
Solution 5 – Formatting It to NTFS
If your Toshiba external hard drive has been partitioned with the wrong file system, you will also encounter the "external hard drive not recognized" issue. For instance, you may have formatted the drive with the ext4 file system from Linux or the HFS Plus file system from a Mac. Or, you drive file system is damaged and shows as RAW. However, Windows cannot recognize these file systems, thus Windows cannot recognize your external hard drive.