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My USB flash drive won work on one machine but works fine on another?

April 26, 2017Fine flash drive Machine USB

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My USB flash drive won work on one machine but works fine on another?

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This is a very common issue that occurs in many systems running Windows XP. I have seen this issue in both USB flash drives and USB external drives. Follow the troubleshooting steps below: [A] 1. Go to Start>> Right click My Computer>> Manage>> Disk Management 2. Check to ensure that there is a drive letter assigned to the drive. If there is not, right click the drive and select “Change”. Then, see if you can assign a drive letter to this drive. [B] If the device is listed in Disk Management and has an assigned drive letter, you can try right clicking the device again and this time select “Explorer”. Windows Explorer should now be invoked and should display the device and any content within. [C] 1. Go to Start>> Right click My Computer>> Manage>> Device Manager 2. Expand the USB Controller section 3. Right click and Uninstall all of the listed USB devices 4. Reboot the system [D] Try connecting the device directly to the USB port and not through a USB hub to see if that makes a differe