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Usb drive not detected

SneakySquid9

Hello, I have just finished building my pc and I noticed that the front panel USB ports can't detect USB drives. I know that the USB port itself is working since my wireless mouse and keyboard are working on it but I just can't open files from a USB drive connected to it. What should I do?

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Make sure that there isn't anything USB related disabled in the BIOS that shouldn't be.

Otherwise, the port just might not be able to support that type of data transfer or have enough power to power the USB storage device. If you have other available USB ports to use, then I would just use them and use the front ones for your keyboard and mouse and not worry about it.

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11 minutes ago, SneakySquid9 said:

Hello, I have just finished building my pc and I noticed that the front panel USB ports can't detect USB drives. I know that the USB port itself is working since my wireless mouse and keyboard are working on it but I just can't open files from a USB drive connected to it. What should I do?

What format is the USB drive in? Does Windows even acknowledge that a drive is connected or is it completely oblivious to it? What I'm getting from your post is that the drive is listed in Windows Explorer, but when you try to open, it says you need to format the drive in order to use it. Which in that case, you either have a drive that is corrupted or formatted in a file system that Windows cannot read natively (like Apple's HFS+: Mac OS Extended).  

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13 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

What format is the USB drive in? Does Windows even acknowledge that a drive is connected or is it completely oblivious to it? What I'm getting from your post is that the drive is listed in Windows Explorer, but when you try to open, it says you need to format the drive in order to use it. Which in that case, you either have a drive that is corrupted or formatted in a file system that Windows cannot read natively (like Apple's HFS+: Mac OS Extended).  

No, windows doesn't even acknowledge that there is a USB flash drive but my wireless mouse works with that port.

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