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Why don't two of my flash drives work?
I am having trouble with two of my USB drives. Both of them are ADATA UV128/32GB USB 3.0 flash drives. I've put external labels on each of them - Flash 3 and Flash 4 - and will refer to them by those names in this thread.
When I put Flash 3 in the USB hub connected to my laptop, I get a dialog that says "Flash 3 - Please insert a disk into Flash 3 (G:)". This makes no sense to me: I put a variety of files on the flash drive some time ago and it seems to me that those files should be listed. Instead it asks me to put a disk *into a flash drive*?? When I right click on Flash 3 in File Explorer, it shows me a long list of options which includes Eject but when I click Eject, it never returns to tell me that it is okay to remove the flash drive. After removing Flash 3, File Explorer still shows Flash 3 as if it is still in the USB hub.
When I put Flash 4 in the USB hub, I get "USB device not recognized"; nothing at all shows up in File Explorer for this flash drive. This flash drive also had ordinary files on it.
When I put Flash 3 and Flash 4 directly into the laptop, nothing at all happens.
Is this recoverable? In other words, can I do something to make these flash drives usable again? It's not even critical if I've lost the files on the drives although ideally I'd like to get them back.
I'm running Windows 10 Home version 21H2.