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Windows stopped recognizing flash drive.

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I fixed the other problem by assigning a driver letter to it in Disk Management.

 

I think this was the weirdest problem I have ever had with technology and I still have no idea what happened. 

I just went and unplugged my sandisk extreme from one computer to another to transfer files. Plugged it into the other computer and nothing happened. Plugged it back in the first computer, same thing. Plugged it back into the other computer and opened Disk Management. It showed up there but with no volume name. Unplugged it and plugged it back in. Now it won't show up in Disk Management. I rebooted my other computer into mint linux. Linux is recognizing it now but windows won't. What just happened?

 

 

Edit: Just plugged it into a third computer with windows. It works there but not on my other two computers with windows.

 

Edit: On my other computer it shows up in Disk management only. If I click on "format" it says it cannot format because it is offline even though it shows clearly, next to it that it is online.

 

Edit: Restarted my main computer. Now it works. However restarting my other computer doesn't fix the problem. It shows in device manager but that's it. (I also formatted it using the one computer that recognizes it so it's starting fresh.)

 

CPU - FX 8350 @ 4.5GHZ GPU - Radeon 5700  Mobo - M5A99FX Pro R2.0 RAM - Crucial Ballistix 16GB @ 1600 PSU - Corsair CX600M CPU Cooler - Hyper 212 EVO Storage - Samsung EVO 250GB, WD Blue 1TB

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I fixed the other problem by assigning a driver letter to it in Disk Management.

 

I think this was the weirdest problem I have ever had with technology and I still have no idea what happened. 

 

CPU - FX 8350 @ 4.5GHZ GPU - Radeon 5700  Mobo - M5A99FX Pro R2.0 RAM - Crucial Ballistix 16GB @ 1600 PSU - Corsair CX600M CPU Cooler - Hyper 212 EVO Storage - Samsung EVO 250GB, WD Blue 1TB

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