Click on Device Manager and expand the Disk Drives.
In this case, you may need to update the USB drive. If something is wrong with the USB drive, it may not show up in File Explorer.
We will look at the different solutions that apply to some of the issues of the USB drive not showing up Windows 10/11.
Some reasons that may be responsible for this include file system errors, drive letter conflicts, or USB driver issues. If you can see your USB stick in Disk Management, it can still be detected by Windows but for some reason, it is not showing up in File Explorer. Quick Navigation Part 1: Repair Windows 11/10 Not Recognizing USB in File Explorer but in Disk Management Part 2: Fix USB Drive Not Showing Up in Windows 11/10 File Explorer Not Disk Management Part 1: Repair Windows 11/10 Not Recognizing USB in File Explorer but in Disk Management We will look at the various solutions to the different issues that are associated with USB not showing up on Windows PC. If you can’t see your USB drive in Disk Management, you don’t have to worry. From here, you can check whether the USB drive is seen or not. To check if your external drive is showing in Disk Management, navigate to ‘This PC’ and then to ‘Manage’ and ‘Disk Management. Check whether your USB drive appears in Disk Management or not? The symptoms determine the solutions are useful or not. Your USB drive may show up in Disk Management but not in Windows File Explorer and sometimes, it may be missing from both places. The causes of the issues will usually determine the specific solutions that will work to resolve them. One common issue that is associated with external storage devices is Windows 10 and Windows 11 not recognizing USB. Microsoft is a big draw for hackers.so keep your guard up.Updated to Computer Troubleshooting Tips by Kisakye on Why is my USB stick not showing on my computer?
So create a file to tell you how to change.keep UAC high except when you want to make changes. So I can tell you the above worked for me.
Like when you want to access a special drive, or make system changes. I recommend you only keep the access control bar low, when needed. MOVE the BAR for user access control to ZERO.or whatever you are comfortable with.ĪT zero,I was able to see my external drive. There is a bar asking for you to be notified for system changes. (select this as the option if you get more than one choice), Many folks are having this problem with external hard drives. Access is denied".įYI-Here is "a" solution IF it sees the drive but access is denied. Finally I uploaded the drive using windows easy transfwer form one Windows7 to another.īut I still was not happy I could nto "see or access" the drive.so here IS the fix.for I wasted money buying a faster connction.bah humbug.
I spent four days on the Mickely Mouse.and yes I tested the drive on another windows 7 computer and TWO wondows XP computers. I am posting my answer.even though it is an old thread.so it may help OTHERS with similar issue. Urgent, I need access to crucial data on the philips. Not sure if the 32 issuesĪre related but it does sound too coincidental. I am also coincidentally having issues with a small usb stick which still reads fine on XP but in the Windows 7 pc it thinks there is just a 2k 'BOOTEX' file when there is a whole folder structure and 100's of small files. The new one and the philips is the only copy. I cant reformat it as it contains all the crucial data that I was transferring from my old laptop to Windows explorer say it is corrupt and unreadable and would i like to reformat it. The windows 7 machines or vista and has not been accessible since. Then the next day it would not be read by either the XP or There are other strange anomalies like when I subsequently put the philips into an XP machine to virus check it, which worked fine and it was completely functioning via windows explorer too. I have read all the similar post and tried all the suggestions to no avail. I tried to use the Philips Ext HDD in the same manner and it could not be read in the sense that windows explorer usually recognises the HDD as 'Philips Drive' but now recognised it only as Local disk D: and stated it was unreadable, inaccessible, etc.ĭisk management now thinks it is a 149GB RAW file, that is active and a primary partition, whereas before it thought it was NTFS.ĭevice manager recognises it as a USB mass storage device, with an upto date driver and working properly.
My Philips SPD5230CC 160GB Hi-Speed USB 2.5 inch External Hard Drive was inserted into 1 of 4 usb ports and I was able to read and write data to it - although I only edited one file just to prove to myself that all was well. I have just bought a brand new 64bit hp probook laptop with Microsoft Windows 7 installed.