The USB port not recognizing devices is due to a wide variety of reasons, from software to hardware problems. We'll go over some of the common causes and how you can fix them.

If your USB flash drive is not copying files, format your file type to NTFS. However, you may also need to gain administrator permission to fix the issue.

There's nothing worse than plugging in a USB drive and nothing happening. It can be tricky to figure out why on Windows, so we have some suggestions.

So I plugged the new 32gb usb flash drive into my desktop. Kaspersky did a detailed scan of it and no threats found. The usb does shows 29gb of 29gb free. It does have 2 files there on the usb ...

If you are having trouble getting a USB flash drive or external hard drive to mount on your Mac, here are several things you can try to fix the issue.

A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.

Conclusion Repairing a corrupted USB drive in Linux involves a combination of backing up data, using filesystem repair tools, and sometimes resorting to low-level formatting.

I have a usb flash drive where I stored a ton of important files. The issue is few times when I connect it to my laptop, it would not recognize it. So I know there is some damage probably with it ...