How to get your pc to recognise your flash drive

Have you ever plugged your flash drive or hard drive into a Windows PC and it hasn’t being recognized? Very often our first thought is that the drive is broken. However, this could be caused by many different factors, including partition issues, dead USB ports on your machine, driver issues or even the fact that the drive is using the wrong filing system for Windows.

Today we are going to help you troubleshoot these issues to fix the problem. These steps can be used for both flash drives and larger external drives on your system.