BIOS WON'T DETECT BOOT DRIVE!

[Cyguns]

A few days ago, I got a few BUGCODE USB DRIVER bluescreens because I'm running Windows on a USB. After it bluescreened a few times my bios will no longer detect my USB. After a few more tries to get the USB to detect, the computer will have a bit of a delay when booting into the BIOS. I was recently able to plug the USB into a computer and it detects but there are no files in it. It also starts heating up when I plug it in. Are my files corrupted and what is going on?

[Car712]

9 minutes ago, Cyguns said:

A few days ago, I got a few BUGCODE USB DRIVER bluescreens because I'm running Windows on a USB. After it bluescreened a few times my bios will no longer detect my USB. After a few more tries to get the USB to detect, the computer will have a bit of a delay when booting into the BIOS. I was recently able to plug the USB into a computer and it detects but there are no files in it. It also starts heating up when I plug it in. Are my files corrupted and what is going on?

Im guessing this might be a problem with the USB, maybe it failed, or somehow the files got corrupted. A similar thing happened to me once, with a external USB hard drive, it just failed one day, wouldent work, data was gone. I would suggest possibly (if there was valuable data on it) taking it to a computer repair store, and see if they can get anything off it, and then get a new USB.

[Cyguns]

6 minutes ago, bobbyd52 said:

Im guessing this might be a problem with the USB, maybe it failed, or somehow the files got corrupted. A similar thing happened to me once, with a external USB hard drive, it just failed one day, wouldent work, data was gone. I would suggest possibly (if there was valuable data on it) taking it to a computer repair store, and see if they can get anything off it, and then get a new USB.

So the USB is unreliable but functional? I still wanna use it just to play games and not store important data on it.

[Car712]

9 minutes ago, Cyguns said:

So the USB is unreliable but functional? I still wanna use it just to play games and not store important data on it.

Have you been able to boot into the USB at all, after the computer bluescreened and wouldn't detect it? Or has it not been working at all?

 

if you have not been able to boot into the USB at all, and it still works (but shows no files) when plugged in as a storage device on another computer, then most likely, the files got corrupted somehow.

 

If you dont mind losing some files that *might* still be on the USB, then I would suggest to format it and reinstall Windows on it, and see if that works. If not, then you would need a new USB.

[Cyguns]

10 minutes ago, bobbyd52 said:

Have you been able to boot into the USB at all, after the computer bluescreened and wouldn't detect it? Or has it not been working at all?

 

if you have not been able to boot into the USB at all, and it still works (but shows no files) when plugged in as a storage device on another computer, then most likely, the files got corrupted somehow.

 

If you dont mind losing some files that *might* still be on the USB, then I would suggest to format it and reinstall Windows on it, and see if that works. If not, then you would need a new USB.

Okay, thanks!

[JohnDongus]

Another thing you could try, and this usually works with me. Is try to remove all drives but the flashdrive and see if it boots, also go into bios and change between uefi and legacy.

[Cyguns]

On 9/10/2018 at 9:46 AM, JohnDongus said:

Another thing you could try, and this usually works with me. Is try to remove all drives but the flashdrive and see if it boots, also go into bios and change between uefi and legacy.

Oh, okay thanks! I will try it.