If your USB drive is accessible on other devices, there might be a driver issue on your PC. First, try to disable and re-enable your drive using Device Manager. Here's how to do that: Press ...

For this, download and install it on your computer, then open it after connecting the USB device. Next, select the USB drive from the drop-down menu and attempt to transfer data to or from the device.

If you see only one USB drive with a letter, you can try assigning the same drive letter to another drive to see if it helps. To do that, open Disk Management and right-click on the USB drive.

Changing the USB port can sometimes help. If this doesn’t help, the next step is to test the USB drive on another PC. This will ensure that the problem isn’t related to a specific computer.

A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from. Whatever issues you're having on your system can be bypassed ...