Now, all of us sometimes store our important or personal files such as photos, study documents, files for work or videos on USB drives. However, it sometimes happens that we can no longer access our precious documents following physical damage to our keys or simply following an accidental deletion.
In these cases, our first instinct is to want to recover from the USB drive as soon as possible and in any way.
Here is how to recover USB key data depending on whether it is due to hardware damage or accidental manipulation.
What does USB flash drive not recognized mean?
When a USB flash drive has stopped working, you may see several types of error messages that often appear suddenly without warning. These messages are almost always obvious symptoms of a failure in your external storage media.
The different detection errors and USB drivers on PC :
When inserting it into the USB port, the screen displays a long error message: “USB device not recognized. One of the USB devices connected to the computer was not working properly. Windows cannot recognize it. For more information on solving the problem, click on this message”.
The message ” USB device not recognized ” usually appears right after inserting the USB Wikipedia drive into the connection port of your pc and certainly indicates a hardware problem.
Another very common error message indicating hardware damage after inserting the USB drive is: “Installation of device driver failed”. After inserting your USB flash drive, your pc may take a while to search for data from the device, but nothing shows up.