What Should You Do to Restore Data If Flash Drive Is Not Detected by Computer?

Cases about USB Flash Drive Not Detected Problem

Case1: My flash drive is not detected by computer laptop. When I plugged it into my laptop, the flash drive is not showing up on My Computer. There is no any sign of detections that I can find on my computer. I also tried it with other computer, but there is no help. Please tell me how can I solve this problem? The flash drive contains much important data.

Case2: My computer can’t detect my 4GB USB flash drive, but I can find it under Disk Management. However, I can do nothing with the flash drive unless formatting it. But I can’t format it because the flash drive contains lots of files. I need to get those files off the flash drive before formatting it. What do I do to get back my data?

Download the Following Software to Recover Data

	#1 Data Recovery Software to restore data off usb drive, memory card, pen drive, hard disk, external drive etc. How to use: best disk recovery software for step by step guide	#1  must try recovery software
	#2 Data Recovery Software Another chance for you to recover data from disk, card, external etc.    How to use: Windows data recovery steps	#2  must try recovery software
	#3 Data Recovery for Card USB - recover data from card/usb How to use: memory card recovery tutorials	#3 must try recovery software

Solutions for Flash Drive Recovery

USB flash drive is widely used by people, but if you always unplug your flash drive from computer unsafely the flash drive will be corrupted or can’t be detected by computer. If you have never met such kind of problem like flash drive is not detected, you may think the flash drive is useless when it is not detected. As a matter of fact, this problem can be solved with correct method. You can assign a drive letter to the not detected flash drive to make it work again. Well, follow this way: Right click on My Computer ->> Management ->> Disk Management ->> find the flash drive, right on the drive letter that represents the flash drive, and then click the "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." option ->> click Change button and choose OK ->> assign a letter to the flash drive and click OK. Now you have succeeded in assigning a letter to the flash drive and you can format the flash drive to make it work again.

Usually, the method above can fix your flash drive and make it work again. However, the only disadvantage of the method above is that you will lose all data after formatting. If the data inside the flash drive is really important to you, you can choose a flash drive recovery software to perform data recovery first. Do you doubt what the best flash drive recovery software is and how to use the recovery software? Well, you can refer to flash drive recovery to learn more knowledge.

References

Samsung galaxy sd card not formatted

Format sd card in Samsung galaxy note

Samsung mobile phone recovery free

Samsung galaxy memory card raw file system

Samsung camera photo recovery