If that's the case for you, you can try updating your PC's drivers to make sure it's just a minor problem. Do you already have your PC and your USB stick ready? Well, we started with the procedure.
How to update the pendrive driver quickly and easily
To do this, start by connecting the USB flash drive to your computer. Once done, press the «Win + R» keys.
A pop-up text box will open at the bottom of your computer screen. Enter the command "Devmgmt.msc" and then click "OK" to run Device Manager.
In the list of storage devices in Device Manager, find "Universal Serial Bus Controls" and right-click on it, then select » Uninstall «.
Continue removing the USB drive e restart your computer. Once the system has started, reconnect the pendrive to the PC to check if the problem has been solved.
In case the problem persists and you do not see the pendrive in the list of connected external devices, we must continue to proceed with the next method.
How to format my pendrive in a few steps
format the pendrive you can use the tool of Windows disk management. But keep in mind that before formatting your flash drive it is important to recover the data you have stored on the USB drive. Otherwise you would lose everything you had stored inside.
One way to recover such data is through the use of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free. To do this, start by downloading the application to your computer.
Once downloaded and installed on your computer, we will proceed to the data recovery. Start by connecting the USB drive to your computer.
From the app, select a location to start the reset. In this case it is necessary to select the pendrive. The application in question will perform a quick scan and then a full scan of the USB drive to find the lost files.
The procedure will take a few minutes which will depend exclusively on the amount of files you have archived on your pendrive and its storage capacity.
Once both scanning processes are completed, you need to choose which items you want to get back and then click "Recover" to recover the selected files.
Remember to choose a different location to save your data to avoid overwriting it before clicking "Restore".
After completing all these steps, go to "My Computer" or "This Computer". Find and select "Manage". Look for this option at the top of the screen in the toolbar.
A new window will open with the legend " Computer management ". In the list you have, click on "Storage". It will take you to a new screen within the same window with more options.
In the submenu that has been opened, click on » Disk management ». Again you will get a new screen with a list of all the storage systems available on your computer. In it you have to look for yours USB pendrive.
Position yourself on the pendrive and click on it with the right mouse button. Finally click on » Format »And close the window to use it again.
Remember that once you format your USB stick all the data you had stored will be lost, so it is very important that you have created a backup copy of the data that was stored as we have taught you earlier.
After the formatting process is complete, you can save the files again. As you can see, it is very easy to solve the problem that my PC does not recognize my USB stick. If you have any questions about the tutorial, you can leave us your comment below so we can help you solve it.
