Flash drive usb not working

whattheballs

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When I plug the USB in the computer recognizes it but it cant open the contents inside. It doesn't show up in my computer. https://i.imgur.com/Bx0faPl.png I tried re-installing driver and that didn't help. I believe its USB problem, just plain out broken somewhere. I'm wonder if there still a way to save this USB stick?
 

08shantanu

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If the data in the drive is not very important to you
Try to format it to NTFS or FAT32
then you can recover the data
I think that should work

I had the same problem
I formatted my USB drive in MAC OS and then couldn't figure out why it wasn't showing up on my windows
 

whattheballs

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I tried formatting and it wouldn't let me. Now does that mean the usb is completely broken?