Pendrive not detected in windows install#
Pendrive not detected in windows serial#

But if the drive works under linux, it should be no problem to make the backup before.) (However the drive must be re-formatted afterwards and the data is lost. This cleaning should help to bring the USB flash back to normal. (For Ubuntu, there is a good help page here.) Among others, one of its functions is to wipe the first megabyte (MiB) of the drive. There is a wonderful and reliable linux utility named mkusb, the 'tool to create boot drives'. So what is needed is a sort of clean-up, which would wipe the remaining traces of the other (iso9660) file system. While linux does not care about these leftovers, Windows are probably more strict when checking the inserted flash drive, and they refuse to access it. My understanding is that some live linux installers format the flash drive to an iso9660 file system, and re-formatting the drive back to FAT32 does not fully remove the tracks of the previous file system. For linux, on the other hand, everything worked without problems. Also formatting the drive was not possible in Windows. After I formatted it back to FAT32 (in linux), Windows could not access the drive, though they detected it. I ran into this problem several times after I had used the flash drive for a live linux installation. I am rather late with my answer, but I believe people still come across this problem, so it might be useful. And is there any way to fix it? If yes then how? What can be cause of this? Given that the device is working okay in Ubuntu, I assume that the hardware itself is not damaged. I read that it might be a driver problem.

In addition, I tried to plug this flash drive into freshly installed Windows 7 ењ†4 Ultimate. FYI the filesystem was NTFS, reformatted as FAT, so that's hardly the issue. However, under Ubuntu 10.04 on my netbook, the flash drive is fully operational: I could easily back up data from it, format it (however formatting did not help to get it running on Windows).

Pendrive not detected in windows install#

Windows 7 also fails to find and install drivers for Unknown Device.

Pendrive not detected in windows serial#

The device shows up under Other Devices / Unknown Device and Universal Serial Bus Controllers / Unknows Device in Device Manager.

The device is not present in Computer Management / Storage.

After that I could not get it working on any of my Windows systems too. One day I lend it to my friend and when he brought it back, he told me he could not get it working. It was working okay on all my computers, like a flash drive usually does. I have a Corsair Flash Voyager GT with capacity of 16 GB bought roughly 5 years ago.