Unable to Read USB Flash Drive

try assigning a letter to the flash drive in disc management.

You may be able to recover use of the drive in another system.
If not, consider the drive dead.

thanx for the response tedster

please insert disk into drive e: usb problem

Try this. I had a problem with a 2Gig Kingston DataTraveler USB stick which worked perfectly in my laptop (running Windows XP) until I plugged in a friends Corsair USB stick to copy some data. After which I got a message 'Please insert disk into drive e:' whenever I treid to access the encrypted partition of the Kingston stick. It still worked fine on my other laptop and other desktop PC's so I knew it was down to the software of the laptop. To remedy I did the following and it worked.

With the PenDrive in the USB port
1. Go into device mananger (right click on Computer, hit properties, then hit device manager).
2. Navigate to Universal Serial Bus controllers at the bottom and uninstall "USB Mass Storage Device" ( Once you reconnect a USB drive after rebooting, windows should reinstall these drivers)
3. Reboot your computer

Hey presto No more 'please insert disk into drive e:' message.
Hope this helps others with a similar problem.

USB Flash Drive Unrecognizable in all Computers

I purchased a USB Flash Drive the 2GB Forum Eddie Wall Model (part# FORUM-EW/2GB). I purchased it in April ‘07 and I am already having issues with it, I can no longer retrieve anything from the drive, because no system recognizes the flash drive when plugged into to USB port. I know it’s not my laptop since I can use other devices such as cameras, mouse, and other flash drives.
I used it since I purchased it and last week at work on June 22 was the last time remember using the flash drive. I notice the LED on the flash drive does not turn on, as before once the drive was plugged into the USB port. No computer will recognize the flash drive, uugggh.

I have saved work on the drive for school and my job. Does anyone know what can be done to get the flash drive to initialize when it’s plugged into the system? It doesn’t work on any system I have plugged it into, 10 different systems in fact including our servers.

I think Tedster you mentioned, "if the drive doesn't appear there may still be hope (details later)." In your post ( http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic45834.html )
are there details for this situation? Please say yes or am I SOL.

thanks guys!

I'm not having luck with usb flash drives. Now I have 2 'dead' usb in one year.I was really careful when inserting or removing them but in my case this was not enough.I thank you all for your advices but none of my usb's began to work.One of them still unaccessible 'Insert unit into drive F' and the other still undetectable but the LED IS ON.

I have a usb drive that very rapidly goes back and forth between being recognized and not being recognized. It is not recognized long enough to follow Tedster's directions.

How do I get this drive to stabilize long enough to reformat it or am I wasting my time and should I just trash it. It is a 4gb drive and my system is Windows XP. The same thing happens on every computer I try it on. Help!

In most cases do not format USB drives with standard Microsoft Format. Download the HP USB storage tool. It's free on the HP site.

Unable to read USB drive

The same happenned to me today, after I backed up all the files I needed on my PC and emptied my recycle bin. This is what saved me: Data Doctor Recovery Pen Drive. You can get it on http://www.datadoctor.biz/bak-d2.htm for $45.

Thanks. I have tried the demo model of this software and it did not work. I hate to spend $45 on the software since I can buy a new drive for under $45. I may give it a try anyway. It will give me a tool if I have trouble with any other drives. thanks.

hi i wonder if any1 can help me, my friend has given me a 2GB integral usb flash drive but has somehow formated it to show its capacity as a 1.44 floppy. it also shows up in my computer as two drives which i cant do nothing with. i tried everything i can think of but with no progress. can anyone help me revive this drive?
thanks in advance as this website always manages to help me out of my sticky situations

hey........please help me ...........u say that if the flash drive is not showing up anything than there is still some hope..........
this is how my case is.......suddenly my usb flash drive have stopped working..........will u please help me....with lots of lots of respect...