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My USB flash drive (Jump Drive) is not working when I plug it into my computer.?

My flash drives or more commonly known as jump drives won't work on my computer. Now I'm most certain that it's my computer's problem not my actual Flash Drive. I know this because it works just fine when I plug it into any computer at my school but not at my home computer. I've tried two various flash drives neither work but the computer does recognize them as being there. This is a recent problem and the Flash Drives WERE working just fine. Usually the way it would work is I'd insert the Flash Drive with is a small device that, when plugged into a USB port it acts as a separate drive that can hold information. I'd normally just insert the Flash Drive and then go to Start then My Computer and then I could see my C:/ Drive my D:/ Drive which is my back up drive and finally my E:/ Drive which is my CD/DVD drive. Now whenever my Flash Drive was plugged in I'd normally see a new drive in this section called the F:/ Drive and it'd usually either be called "Lexar" or something else because that was just the brand of Flash Drive it was but now whenever I plug it in the computer recognizes that there's something plugged in but all that happens is that a new little icon appears in what I think is called the "Task Bar" just left to the clock in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. It makes a ping and the new icon is a "Safely Remove Hardware" one. It's not recognizing it anymore and I need help on getting those precious files on that Flash Drive onto my computer and more files on my computer onto that Flash Drive. Please help. I don't have any clue on what I should do and any help at all would be very helpful please please please if you have any idea please leave a comment and as much detail as you can on the subject and I'd like to just know what is happening and how I can fix this. If it does help my computer was recently reformatted but this wasn't a problem until a few weeks after the reformat. I have a Windows XP Compaq Computer. It was designed for XP but Vista Compatible and was bought around the year 2006. It has just under 500 MB's a Ram. Roughly a 200GB hard drive and currently has a Vista Theme installed making it look as if it were Vista Made. (This is only a theme with Skins. It's not actually Vista it's XP only a Vista Look Alike). It has two USB ports in the front and two in the back if this helps in discovering the actual computer Model and such. Well I really hope that someone can help me please feel free to respond and I'd appreciate the help that I can get from any of you. Thanks again. And please be serious.

Public Comments

1. Try a different USB port...or right click on my computer, click manage,click disk management on the left hand side,find your flash drive in the box, right click, change drive letter,click change, try the letter G
2. In this case most probably cause is your USB port damage. No supply flow to the port which use by the flash drive to communicate in your PC. Your port mostly defective. Try other ports.
3. Go to: Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware Tab > Device Manager > navigate down to USB Root HUB (all of them) > Right Click > Properties > Power Management Tab > Un check "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". Retry your USB Thumb drive...It should work now... Good Luck!
4. have u right clicked icon + then clicked on mount drive / device !?!?!? if un-mounted u have no access to it. worth a look into ...init :)