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PC Layman

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Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
« on: September 01, 2007, 01:05:39 PM »
Sorry if this has been asked a million times before, but anyway the problem is that although the red light on my flash drive flashes when I plug it in, when I open My Computer the drive you are supposed to click on (E:) does not show up. It was working fine first thing this morning but shortly afterwards I was not able to do anything with it and many hours laters the problem still remains, despite several attempts on both my lap top and non-portable home computer, including rebooting, plugging it in the other socket etc.  Do you think it might have suffered some internal damage of some sort because I was carrying it about a lot today for work with my lap top and other components? If not, can the problem still be solved in some way or other?

Thanks if you could help!

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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #1 on: September 01, 2007, 03:55:30 PM »
    If the drive isn't working on two different computers I would suspect the flash drive have died on you.
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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #2 on: September 02, 2007, 01:39:19 AM »
    yeah,could be the flash drive.it's not overheating when plug into the pc?
    try different flash drive in same pc,if it works then buy a new flash drive,if not,could be the USB port.

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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #3 on: September 02, 2007, 04:58:00 AM »
    try different flash drive in same pc,if it works then buy a new flash drive,if not,could be the USB port.

    I did that and it worked fine on both computers. Must be the flash drive itself, if so I'll have to replace it like you said! Thanks for your help anyway...

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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #4 on: September 02, 2007, 07:12:02 AM »
    Since you didn't mention what OS you have i'll assume XP...
    Right click My Computer ...select Manage and then Disk Management...how is it shown there ? ?
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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #5 on: September 02, 2007, 06:09:46 PM »
    "OS"??

    Nothing seems to be showing, just the hard drive - actually I can show you what it looks like:




    Perhaps we can come to the conclusion that it is indeed a dead drive?

    And you assumed correctly, I just have the display set to Windows Classic because it looks nicer IMO.

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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #6 on: September 02, 2007, 06:31:32 PM »
    Classic is the way to go... ;)

    Before you give up on it look for a microswitch on the drive itself...some are made with them but their hard to spot.
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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #7 on: September 03, 2007, 01:50:51 PM »
    Before you give up on it look for a microswitch on the drive itself...some are made with them but their hard to spot.

    Aha! Yep, found it, it had somehow got into the off position - working fine now! Once again, thanks for your help!

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    Re: Help - USB 2.0 Flash drive not showing
    « Reply #8 on: September 03, 2007, 05:51:21 PM »
    Excellent! We love success stories here...
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