Right click on the start menu and choose disk management.
Pc not recognising memory stick.
Find the drive in question and check out its partition.
Click on view all option on the upper left corner.
Make sure the memory card is inserted in the correct direction.
Thanks @ejn63 and @inspiron 3593 for the suggestions!
Follow the steps given below:
Hello, my hp laptop has recently stopped recognising all memory sticks and my external hard drive (they used to work!).
Why won’t my computer read my usb stick?
You can also right click on the drive number on the left column and see if it needs activating.
If the memory is not detected in bios, the rest of the computer will not detect the memory.
A glitch in your machine's hard drive will not allow anything on it to work in a good and perfect way.
How to enter the bios or cmos setup.
The drivers may not be available, corrupted, or outdated which would make the flash drive not recognized.
Click on ‘device manager’ and expand the ‘disk drives’.
If the problem you are experiencing has to do with your windows 10/11 application not recognizing the usb drive or storage you used, follow these steps to rectify the problem.
You can use device manager to check the status of your usb driver.
Cut the power to your computer by pressing the switch on the back of your case and open it up.
If all slots and ram sticks are working, put all ram sticks in slots, and run f12 diagnostics just for memory.
If you can't find the drive try the following.