How to Fix Pen drive is Detected but Not Showing in My Computer Problem

How to Fix Pen drive is Detected but Not Showing in My Computer Problem

Many people face problems with pendrive that it is detected but not showing in the Computer.This is a very common pen drive problem/issue t... 23:05

Many people face problems with pendrive that it is detected but not showing in the Computer.This is a very common pen drive problem/issue that usually happens with new pen drives.But this problem is not limited to pendrive only you may also face same problem with other external devices like flash drives, Memory cards or external HDD.Because of this  problem, whenever we plug in any external device to our computer, it is get detected easily but in actual it doesn't start to appear in My computer.This problem can be solved by following ways.

So in case if you are also facing the same problem follow the following 6 simple steps to get rid of it.
 

 1) Click on Start button and goto run prompt or simply press windows+R.

 2) In the run prompt type compmgmt.msc, and press enter. A computer management window will open.

Computer management window

 3) Now Select "Disk Management" from Left hand menu, Disk management options will appear at right side of pane.

 4) In disk management options, you will see some drives including your pen drive or external HDD. Now right click on your pen drive and select “Change Drive letter and paths” from the right click menu. A small window will pop-up.

 5) Now click on “Change” to assign a new drive letter to your pen drive. One thing to notice here is always assign the name which is not already being used by any other drive.

 6) Once you are done, you will see pendrive appears on your computer and if not please restart your computer.