USB devices are popular for their ease of use, portability, transfer speeds, and easy access. There are times when the system does not recognize these USB drives and it can be frustrating trying to access content within them.
When you insert such a USB device into your system, you get the following error message:
“USB Device Not Recognized. One of the USBs attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message.”
Once you click on the message box, you will get a recommendation – “Try reconnecting the device. If Windows still does not recognize it, your device may not be working properly.”
In Device Manager, you can see a yellow alert icon, and the device is shown as an Unknown Device under Universal Serial Bus Controllers.
Let us look at a couple of solutions to this problem.
Drivers are instructions that can be read by the computer to interact with devices. The drivers contain manuals that tell the computer where it attempts to perform basic input/output actions with the device.
If this doesn’t work, go to the device manufacturer’s website and download the latest drivers. Then you can run the driver installer to install the drivers. Restart the system for changes to take effect.
USB device issues can also be caused due to a power management setting.
If there are multiple USB hubs on your system, you have to repeat this method for all of them.
Also Read: Optimize Drive Showing SSD as HDD in Windows 10
If your hard drive is inaccessible to your system, it could very well be due to corruption or damage. You can still recover all the data from the hard drive using Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software.
The software shows you in simple steps on how to recover data from the damaged external hard drive.
The software works on all kinds of hard drives including external drives, USB drives, memory cards, memory sticks, and so on. If there are bad sectors on your USB device that are causing inaccessibility of data, the software creates a disk image of the drive bypassing all the bad sectors and then recovers data from the image.
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