Re: The Official Windows Download Tool Not Recognizing USB Drive
Niki Wienberg
When the download is complete, the tool instructs you to connect an SSD drive. If the tool is unable to locate the attached drive, there's a good chance that the cable being used isn't reporting the name of the SSD to Windows. The imaging tool must find the name of the drive as "LITEON L CH-128V2S USB Device" before it can continue. For more information on how to remove the existing drive from your Surface Hub, see Surface Hub SSD replacement.
Warning: This workaround is for advanced users only. This workaround involves using a disk sector editor to modify the media descriptor byte on the floppy disk. Misuse of a disk sector editor may make all the data on the drive or volume permanently inaccessible. Disk sector editors function at a level "below" the file system, so the typical checks for maintaining disk consistency do not apply. This provides you direct access to every byte on the physical disk regardless of access credentials. Therefore, you can damage or permanently overwrite critical on-disk data structures. Use this workaround at your own risk.
To work around this problem, use a disk sector editor to change the BPB media descriptor byte to the appropriate value. For example, you can use the DiskProbe tool to do this on a Windows NT 4.0-based, Windows 2000-based, Windows XP-based, or Windows Server 2003-based computer. DiskProbe (Dskprobe.exe) is included with the Windows Support Tools for Windows XP Professional and Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, the Windows 2000 Support Tools, and Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit Support Tools.
The following table lists the most common media descriptor bytes:
Byte Capacity Media Size and Type
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F0 2.88 MB 3.5-inch, 2-sided, 36-sector
F0 1.44 MB 3.5-inch, 2-sided, 18-sector
F9 720K 3.5-inch, 2-sided, 9-sector
F9 1.2 MB 5.25-inch, 2-sided, 15-sector
FD 360K 5.25-inch, 2-sided, 9-sector
FF 320K 5.25-inch, 2-sided, 8-sector
FC 180K 5.25-inch, 1-sided, 9-sector
FE 160K 5.25-inch, 1-sided, 8-sector
FE 250K 8-inch, 1-sided, single-density
FD 500K 8-inch, 2-sided, single-density
FE 1.2 MB 8-inch, 2-sided, double-density
F8 ----- Hard disk
The BPB media descriptor byte is located in sector 0 of the disk, and looks similar to this:
addr data:
0000 EB 3C 90 4D 53 44 4F 53 35 2E 30 00 02 01 01 00
0010 02 E0 00 40 0B F0 09 00 12 00 02 00 00 00 00 00
xx
Nick2000 has covered many of the likely scenarios for an unrecognized USB device. If the Camera appears correctly in Device Manager, also look at Disk Management to see if windows has assigned a drive letter. If not, it will not display in Windows Explorer.
Many of the hurdles that you might face when making a Windows installation USB drive are overcome with the right tool. The most versatile one at the moment is Easy2Boot. By following one of the tutorials out there, you can keep your USB drive (even large USB hard drives) formatted as NTFS, rather than limiting your options with FAT32. Even UEFI is possible. In my case, I have an NTFS-formatted USB 3.0 stick that I use to boot multiple installation ISOs in UEFI mode, and some ISOs are larger than 4 GB, which isn't possible with FAT32 formatting.
I try all method to create bootable usb drive for HPE Firmware 8.30 cd under windows 10 with HPE USB Key Utility but without sucess The hpe USB key not work on Windows 10 even compatibility mode. Thanks for any help !
So what do you do if you face an issue like this? Well, if you are here, you are in the right place as we will be taking a look at some steps you can take when your computer is not recognizing your external hard drive.
You can make the hard drive show up by partitioning it. This would be possible using the Disk Management tool. But, if the hard drive is battling from an issue of partition loss, you would have to create a new partition. This would allow you to recover your lost data. Here, you need to do a lost partition recovery before you do anything else.
"We can't find a USB flash drive" is an annoying error that occurs when you upgrade Windows 10 by creating a bootable USB drive with the Windows Media Creation Tool. The strange thing about the Windows media creation tool can't find USB flash drive error in Windows setup is that you can see the USB on your computer, but the system says it's not.
No matter how many times you refresh the drive list, the media creation tool can't find USB. Windows 10 installation has to suspend because you don't have other options to move on unless you can figure out why your USB flash drive is not showing up.
Worry not for this error. We're going to share some experience in troubleshooting the Windows media creation tool "We can't find a USB flash drive. Windows 10 setup error 64-bit or 32-bit". The full explanations of all the solutions are below.
Some users have also reported that they encountered a media creation tool can't find USB issue exclusively with SanDisk USB drive. So, you can use different USB flash drives, like Lexar and Toshiba, if it's the SanDisk USB flash drive that Windows Media Creation Tool can't find even on several computers.
If there are bad sectors on your USB drive, we can't find a USB flash drive problem that could still appear. You can use a professional partition tool - EaseUS Partition Master to check and repair the file system to troubleshoot.
EaseUS disk management tool provides full-around partition solutions for both beginners and experts. You can use it to create a partition, resize/move the partition (allocate space from D drive to C drive), merge/wipe/format partition, clone disk, wipe data, and so on.
Before creating the bootable USB drive, the installer formats the USB. It can also cause we can't find a USB flash drive problem if the formatting goes wrong. In this case, reformat your USB and check if the Windows media creation tool can recognize the USB.
If the USB flash drive is set as the primary drive, it will not show up in the drive list. Then, you will get a Windows media creation tool can't find USB error. It is also possible that the USB drive has a primary disk in it.
To create a bootable USB drive to upgrade Windows 10, you can use some simple utilities instead of the Windows media creation tool. Rufus helps to format and create a bootable USB drive in an easy way.
In addition, you can try updating the USB driver in the Device Manager, checking the file system, reformatting the USB drive, as well as checking the primary partition, and applying another tool to create Windows 10 installation bootable USB.
Often, memory issues within Windows prevent the SSD from being recognized. The Windows Memory Diagnostic tool can detect and fix faulty RAM and hard drive issues. You can run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool as follows:
SSDs are rapidly replacing hard drives, but they do have their issues. If your new SSD is not detected by Windows 10, then it may just be a software issue that can be fixed through the Disk Management utility tool. We hope the fixes above help solve your problem.
Up still now, if you don't fix Windows 10 bootable USB not detected or showing up via the given solutions, you can choose to create an installation disc with Windows 10 media creation tool provided by Microsoft's official website. Please follow the steps below.
If you don't lose all of them, you can choose to repair your computer with the given recovery tools. If you have a system image on an external hard drive, you can solve 99% of computer issues. It contains everything of your system disk and you can restore system image to new hard drive on the current computer.
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The most first solution to fix the error, you can restart your PC and reconnect it to the PC. Second, you should plug the USB drive into another computer, if the error still happened again, the drive is broken and need to repair. Last, what if you connect many USB devices to the same computer, you should try to plug out other UBS devices and check, if the drive doesn't work, you may follow the next solutions to fix windows not recognizing USB.
In Windows XP, Explorer would identify any hard drive, regardless of volume configuration, under "My Computer." However, since the release of Windows Vista, Windows Explorer only lists hard drives that are already formatted. Unless the hard drive is already formatted in NTFS, FAT32 or ExFAT, you need to use Computer Management to set up the SSD so it will appear in Windows. To access the management tool in Windows 7, press "Windows-R," type "diskmgmt.msc" and press "Enter." If the SSD is properly connected to the computer and functioning, it will be listed as "unallocated" on the bottom half of the screen. You can use the Computer Management tool to properly format the SSD.
Windows 7 may be unable to recognize the SSD if there's a problem with the file system. The file system arranges the data on the device; without it the computer can't make sense of the SSD's data. You may be able to fix the drive by clearing the partition table -- and all stored information on the drive -- with the DiskPart tool. You can use the "clean" command to completely wipe a SSD's contents.
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