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This is a hardware problem but since you can't access to the removable you have to order a new one making sure the warranty of your product is still valid
have you tried different usb ports? hit the windows key and the R key at the same time and type diskmgmt.msc and go into disk manager and see if the flash drive shows up in the list of disks installed.
1. Try a different USB port. If other ports recognize it, then the original port is fried.
2. Try a different computer. If the other computer does not recognize it, then your flash drive is damaged.
Hello,
it is a known issue that these particular drives sometimes don't get recognized by the Operating System, after coming out of Sleep, Stand By, or Hibernation.
Simply try to disconnect and reconnect the drive again in the USB port,
if this doesn't work then,
Disconnect it from the USB and connect it to the Firewire.
if this doesn't work then,
Restart the computer.
It should solve the problem.
with the drive connected, right click on "My Computer" and select manage, in the box which appears select disk management. You may be propted to initialise the disk, if you are, do so. If not, check for your drive in the lower panel and see if it has a drive letter, if it doesn't, right click on the disk and select change drive letter or paths, click add or change and select a letter from the drop down list. Click ok and now your drive should show in "My Computer"
The external drive needs to be initialized from your PC. To do this,
right click your My Computer and choose Manage. At the left panel click
on the Disk Management. The list of available drives will show on the
right.
Right click on the drive and select create partition (primary partition). After you've selected your
partition , now you need to format the hard drive. Choose quick format.
Right click again on the partition you've just created, now select
"Format" and select NTFS. Click ok and it will guide you until it is
finished.
Work through My computer once putting the disk in the USB port. It should read "removable device". Click back and forth from c: drive to my computer to make the computer recognize it faster. Let me know what happens.
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