Jan 18, 2013 · Pull the cap off the thumb drive, or swivel it open, depending on the type of Lexar thumb drive you have. Step 2 . Plug the USB end of the thumb drive into an available USB port on your computer. If this is the first time that you're plugging in the USB thumb drive, a pop-up window will indicate that a new driver is being installed.

May 16, 2024 · Find your USB drive in the list and right-click it. Select Change Drive Letter and Path to assign a new drive letter. This can sometimes make the unrecognised drive accessible again. Step 3: Check Disc with Command Prompt Type cmd in the Start menu, right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. Enter the following command:

I would ask you to uninstall the usb drive from the device manager and then restart the computer and re-insert the hard drive and check. Browse to the Universal Serial Bus controllers in the device manager and right click on the drive and click uninstall and restart the computer. Once the computer is restarted connect the usb drive and check.

Jan 19, 2025 · Try plugging that flash drive into another PC and check to see if it works. If not, there are 3 unrecoverable errors we get on flash drives 'Write Protected', 'Insert Disk' and 'You need to format the disk'. You will find 'fixes' all over the Internet, none of them work, sadly the drive cannot be repaired

Aug 9, 2012 · I just bought one of these 16gb Lexar USB thumb drives to fix a problem with a brand new laptop running Windows 10. (MS Tech says I have to reinstall it). Bought the drive to download the recovery files, tried it on 3 different Windows 7 PCs. Not recognized. Not present in partition manager. All drivers are current. Tried it on a Windows 10 ...

Jan 5, 2014 · The screen flashes (refreshes?) about every 5 seconds. Looking at Windows Explorer, I see the drive pop up and disappear, about every 5 seconds. Same thing when I go to the Disk Management screen in Control Panel>Admin Tools> etc. The Lexar drive works fine in other W7 and XP computers. Other USB devices work fine in the desktop computer.

Feb 21, 2020 · Open File Explorer, under This PC, you can locate your flash drive. Regards.

Jul 3, 2024 · I'm trying to troubleshoot for my father-in-law who has a fairly new (4-5 years old) HP running Windows 11. His six flash drives (one Lexar, the rest SanDisk, ranging from 1-128 GB) have stopped being recognized on the Windows computer, but they all still work fine on his MacBook. Yesterday one was still working, but now none of the six works.

I have used a flash/usb drive in my HP probook 4530s prior. I just bought a new lexar 4gb usb thumb drive and pluged it in. As it was installing the driver, the laptop blue screened with a partmgr.sys

Lexar USB drive not recognized Split from this thread. I have a Lexar 8gb USB and want to put photos etc on it but when I go to download the USB option does not come up, just the CD option.