USB Flash drive can't be read

[831870]

I have a USB flash disc with 4gig capacity... It just happened that it can't be read by my PC, and even other PCs... I cant format it but it still shows an "icon" in "my computer". It says "insert a disc in drive ___" whenever I try to access it. What can I do? There are important files in it. Thanks!

 

[tillertowe]

try installing the newest chipset drivers (for your mobo), i had this problem and (intel) chipset drivers did the trick.
Somehow windows did no read the USB port correctly

 

[raybay]

See if you can reformat the drive... using FAT32.

 

[LookinAround]

Look towards the end of this post. There are a couple recovery tools you might try and see if they might be able to read the drive

 

[831870]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be trying those out... I'll keep this post open until I've solved the problem. Many thanks!