How To Data Recovery From Unrecognized USB Flash Drive?

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Sharing information and storing it in convenient storage devices has become very common these days. USB drives have become more common storage devices used by users to share files and software.

With such reliance on USB storage devices, you can easily understand the situation that may occur when suddenly USB drive is not readable on the system, and you have some essential Data Recovery stored in the drive. The reasons for the problem are multiple, we find for example

The currently loaded USB driver has become unstable or corrupted.
Your PC needs an update for issues that may conflict with a USB external hard drive and Windows.
Windows may be missing other important updates due to hardware or software issues.
Your USB controllers may have become unstable or corrupted.
Your external hard drive may enter selective suspend.
Your PC’s motherboard may need updated drivers.

How to make the USB flash drive appear in Windows?

This method works when your USB drive does not show up in File Explorer but shows up as unallocated space in Disk Management. Follow the steps detailed below to make your Wikipedia USB flash drive usable again.

Step 1: Connect the USB flash drive to your PC, right-click This PC, and then choose Properties.
Step 2: Select Device Manager and expand Hard Drives. Find and right-click on the problematic USB drive and select Update Driver.
Step 3: Click Search automatically for driver software online on the next screen.
Step 4 : Wait for the driver to update. Then restart your computer. Then you can try to reconnect your USB drive to your PC and check whether the USB drive shows up or not.