USB stick is not showing up

[Crepperface9]

Yeah the device worked after the washing.

But has the device been working up until now.

[phillpower2]

So being washed is clearly not the issue.

Your notebook has USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, make sure that the USB device is in one of the USB 2.0 ports on the right hand side of the notebook then do the following;

Upload an expanded screenshot of Disk Manager for us.

Access Disk Management via Run.

Press the Windows+R keys to open Run, type diskmgmt.msc in the empty box then press OK.

To capture and post a screenshot;

Click on the ALT key + PRT SCR key..its on the top row..right hand side..now click on start…all programs…accessories…paint…left click in the white area …press CTRL + V…click on file…click on save…save it to your desktop…name it something related to the screen your capturing… BE SURE TO SAVE IT AS A .JPG …otherwise it may be to big to upload… after typing in any response you have… click on Upload a File to add the screenshot.

Screenshot instructions are provided to assist those that may read this topic but are not yet aware of the “how to”.

[Crepperface9]

Okay, there is only my HDD drive, not the USB drive.

[Crepperface9]

Okay, I got new notification about the USB:

Translated version is the second image

[phillpower2]

Any chance of a translation of what the info in your reply #19 says for us

[Crepperface9]

Any chance of a translation of what the info in your reply #19 says for us

Edited the post, with the translation.

[phillpower2]

Thanks, what that unfortunately means is that the data is corrupt or the drive broken.

How many GB is the stick and how much free storage space was on it, what has happened to you can be caused by the storage device being full and the data on the drive starts to get overwritten.

[Crepperface9]

So the USB is 16GB and I think around 5GB-9GB

[phillpower2]

Plenty of free space on it then.

We have one more option to try, after that it is paying a data recovery service or tossing the drive in the trash.

Do you have a couple more empty USB flash drives, one must be at least 16GB but the other one can be 1GB or above.

[Crepperface9]

I just have only 3 USBs, the one that is broken, and other two that are empty.

[phillpower2]

Not what was asked :unsure:

Do you have a couple more empty USB flash drives, [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]one must be at least 16GB but the other one can be [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]1GB or above.
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[Crepperface9]

I just have USBs with 14,6GB, so that’s no.

[phillpower2]

If there was between 5 and 9GB free on the drive that has gone bad you should be ok to use what you have.

Try booting from Linux on USB to see if that can detect any of the data on the bad flash drive, if it does, you can transfer the data over to your other spare USB thumbdrive.

Everything you need to know about Linux on a USB thumbdrive here

[Crepperface9]

What linux version to download (like Ubuntu)

[phillpower2]

Not used it for a while but when I do I use Puppy Linux, a newer version than the one I have but see tutorial here