flash drive not detected by computer?

Did you uninstall them in Safe mode?

Is it working on other computers? If not it's fried.

First try unplugging (and removing the battery on a laptop), press the power button for five seconds. Leave it for two minutes and try the USB again.

If that doesn't work, remove all USB devices....

Restart in Safe Mode*

Open Device Manager, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click System. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager.

Double click 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers'. Right-click every device under "Universal Serial Bus controllers", click Uninstall and click OK for each instance. Don't worry, Windows will re-build them.

Restart normally and try again.

*Note: On start up (before Windows loads) keep tapping either F5 or F8 (be aware that some manufacturers use F8 for system recovery!) then use arrow keys to highlight 'Safe Mode with networking' and hit Enter/Return, click on a user account, enter the Administrator password (if you don't know it, there probably isn't one so leave it blank) and hit Enter/Return.

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now no longer confident what form of flash you're utilising yet some flash drives do take exception to being bumped off as quickly as you have open archives. the computer freezing is purely the computer attempting to resolve the placement and ought to time out at last. you would manage to resolve your detection challenge via technique of appropriate-clicking on MY computer, left-click on properties, pass to the HARDWARE tab. Left-click on device supervisor, advance the DISK DRIVES selection (click on the +) on the comparable time because it expands, if any of the products decrease than 'Disk Drives' has an exclamation element on it exhibiting there's a topic count you may appropriate-click on it and delete it. do away with your Flash, reboot your computer and attempt putting your flash back. i choose this solves your challenge.

run the troubleshooter in the control panel for a windows pc