Why don't two of my flash drives work?

Ghot · 13 Mar 2022

NavyLCDR said:

A member here created it for me.

All this time... I never noticed that before today. LOL

dorcom · 13 Mar 2022

RhinoCan said:

What do I do about this presumed driver issue? Where do I get drivers for my flash drives?

Presumed driver issue... There could be many other factors.

BIOS.
Is the USB feature enabled in BIOS?
If yes then boot up &
Check a few things.
Obtain/borrow another USB memstick and see if you have the same issue.
If no, likely your USB sticks have an issue
if yes, go to
Open "Settings".
First look in "Bluetooth & other devices" if any and all USB related configurations are listed.
If not "click on add Bluetooth or other device"
also under "Devices" on "USB" see if "notify me if there are issues connecting to USB devices" is checked.
(Or in Control Panel click "device manager", any device drivers flagged?)
In any case click on "action" in menu and select scan for hardware changes" which one of the 2 USB memory sticks in question plugged in.

I stop here for now. There are many qualified answers by others to your question.
Also check on the power options if you have USB power active, respectively on.

Megahertz · 13 Mar 2022

Did you test the flash drives on another computer?

NavyLCDR · 13 Mar 2022

Megahertz said:

Did you test the flash drives on another computer?

Post #17.

Megahertz · 13 Mar 2022

NavyLCDR said:

Post #17.

Yep, he did answer.

They seems to have passed away.
I already bought some fake drives. That is why I always check them with H2testw

bobkn · 13 Mar 2022

Monty Python Dead Parrot - YouTube

I'll spare us the Lumberjack Song.

Bree · 13 Mar 2022

Megahertz said:

They seems to have passed away.
I already bought some fake drives. That is why I always check them with H2testw

Just to see if that could help, I used H2testw on my 'known to have died' usb from post #11. Unsurprisingly, it showed this:

Why don't two of my flash drives work?-image.png

bobkn said:

Monty Python Dead Parrot - YouTube
I'll spare us the Lumberjack Song.

You do realise that with auto-play turned on it goes straight on to the Lumberjack song after playing?

eLPuSHeR · 14 Mar 2022

bobkn said:

Monty Python Dead Parrot - YouTube

I'll spare us the Lumberjack Song.

Good old Monty Python. I wished to hear the Lumberjack song anyway...

RhinoCan · 15 Mar 2022

I used a feature within the View option to produce an HTML report showing all of the information about each of the two flash drives. The following link should point to the HTML report:

Dropbox - report.html - Simplify your life

Edit: Sorry, when I tried the Dropbox link after posting it, it seems to be omitting virtually everything but the column titles. I've tried to simply upload the file but the attachment feature fails to upload it. I would do a screen cap but the report is VERY wide so it would take probably half a dozen screen caps to get it all. Perhaps there are specific columns you want the values of so that I can do fewer screen caps??

MaloK · 15 Mar 2022

This report only shows specs of the drive, try to verify them thoroughly with one of the following torture tools.

5 Free Tools to Check and Test USB Flash Drives • Raymond.CC

I personally like Check Flash very much...

If they looses it again, trash' em, there are some of these that are simply "not good"...

It try to always buy them from their original store and something with at least 5 years of warranty.