How to Fix Pen Drive is Detected but not showing in My Computer Problem

Hi Friends!

Today I am telling you a trick
How to Fix Pen Drive is Detected
but not showing in My Computer
Problem...

This is a common pen drive problem
which happens with new pen drives.
You may also face same problem with
other external devices like flash drives,
Memory cards or external HDD. Due to this
problem, whenever we plug in any external
device to our computer, it gets detected
easily but it doesn’t start to appear in My computer.
This problem can be easily fixed
by follow certain steps

Step 1.
Press windows+R to launch run dialogue box.
Type compmgmt.msc.
A Computer Management window will open

Step 2.
Now select Disk Management from left hand corner

Step 3.
In disk management select your external pen drive.
Now Right click on it
Select “Change Drive letter and paths”

Step 4.
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.

Step 5.
Now your pen drive shows in My Computer if not
then restart your computer.



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+ Muzammil Khan