USB Drive Issue

PTH2009

Not sure if this is applicable to this fourm, if so please move to approaite thread thanks

when i plug in my USB drive to my laptop its makes a noise and then i get the dreaded message 'the USB drive is not recognised', i have tried a few things from Youtube but nothing working sadly. Reckon something inside it is broke thus the loud noise

Anyone experience this ?

Flinty997

Looks like its broken. Is it Flash Drive or hard drive.

USB Drive is meaningless. Lots of things connect via USB.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120952486#Comment_120952486

Portable Flash drive 500GB

Flinty997

Is it a good known make? You might be able to return it. Assuming you've nothing sensitive on it. I don't find Flash drives that reliable or quick. I switched to External SSDs like a SanDisk. Etc.

zell12

My USB Sandisk Ultra 3.0 128gb stopped being recognised by several computers. It has some data on it that I would rather not lose. I suspect it happened because I ejected the drive before saving work.

How do I get access to the data on it?

These are the two messages that appear

and

niallb

This is a different issue to the OP - you should probably start your own thread.
If you haven't already clicked Format disk - don't!

There's a tool called Photorec which is likely to be helpful depending on what kind of files your lost data is saved as.

AMKC

Does anyone in here know how or where I update my USBs with this driver? ,

This below is what I see when I go into device manager and click on USBs,

I just need to know which part of the USBs section do I update or do I do it all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

fritzelly

you've nothing there that needs updating, whatever you want to get working might need a driver to read it but what is it?

Plug it in, cheek device manager again for unrecognised device, right click and update driver manually from the downloads folder