USB Drive No Longer Recognized?

Hey everyone!

So, I've been running into a weird situation and I was hoping to run into some clarification on what I could do to fix the problem.

I got a 128GB Flash Drive which I proceeded to install a portable, bootable Fedora install on. Of course, naturally, since Fedora is light weight, I had all sorts of other room left over. However, when I plug the USB drive back into the main Desktop, it no longer asks me what I want to do with the USB drive, even with AutoPlay stuff disabled. It's as if the USB Drive doesn't exist.

However, I checked quickly on one of my laptops that has never seen the drive and the AutoPlay on that device immediately popped in. When I selected "view files and folders", voila, I could see the Flash Drive with a folder for the Fedora install and plenty of other open space.

How can I force my computer to see this Flash Drive all over again?

Edit:
p.s. Funnily enough, it's doing the same thing with the storage on my fiance's iPhone. Which is fantastic... since I can't see her phone anymore when I plug it in (even iTunes doesn't see it).

Hi Tesagk,

I have had this problem a few times and USB drives are apparently ignored when reattached to the port. I usually find a restart of the PC with the device disconnected sorts out the port settings and when the device is reconnected it is recognised OK.

Hi there

sometimes it's easy

Use the OLD control panel (right mouse click on menu).

Go to Administrative tools --->computer management-->Disk management.

You'll probably see that your USB device hasn't been assigned a Disk letter -- simply assign it one (change drive letter) and Windows will see it.

Usually no need to re-boot etc.

Problem caused by "Disk signature" - especially if the HDD / flash drive is switched frequently between different machines.

Cheers
jimbo

Hi,

Use the OLD control panel (right mouse click on menu).

Go to Administrative tools --->computer management-->Disk management.

Or simply right click the start menu button and select "Disk Management" from the menu.

Cheers,

So, I had looked in disk management previously because I had the same thought. However, I get the following:

"Disk 0" This is my OS drive, which is a 240-ish GB SSD. 215 GB dedicated to C:, 450 MB Healthy Recovery; 8 GB Healthy Hibernation Partitition

"Disk 1" This is my "storage" drive, which is 2 TB. This is not partitioned.

Even when I hit refresh, nothing shows up.

Going to try restarting. =)

Thanks for the help, both of you. Hopefully I'll manage to figure this out with the help.

fdegrove said:

Hi,



Or simply right click the start menu button and select "Disk Management" from the menu.

Cheers,

That's how I did it, ha. =P