my usb flash drive is ot being recognized by laptop and it says 0 bytes

[shawnmel]

My usb key is not being recognized by my laptop. When I plug it in it says insert disk - also it is indicating that there are 0 bytes. Can anyone give me a solution for retreiving my data?

[Xlphos]

Does the usb stick work in other computers?

[Techeasy]

I guess you have encountered RAW drive. Did it remind you "The disk in drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"

Check the file system, did it report RAW?

At this time, the content on your drive will be reported as 0 byte. To recover files from a raw usb flash drive, you can read this article http://recovery-programs.com/raw-drive.html

[shawnmel]

no it doesn't - it say insert disk drive

[ellioth_13]

have you try it in other computers?

does it work?

[thp]

I have the same problem only my drives do work on other computer. Did you ever find a solution?

I did start a new thread - USB Flash Drive & SD Card reader/writer both recognized but not open(Format)

[thp]

I had the same problem (for over a year):

My problem was a bad system32 driver named FastFat.sys

A brief description of steps to repair the problem:

Boot Windosw XP (using boot disk) in Repair Mode
Renamed the old driver C:\Windows\System32\Drivers FastFat.old
copied a new FastFat.sys driver to the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder

Rebooted normal and all work well for me! I can now read and write FAT files to Thumb drives and SD Cards. I hope that this is of help to you.

[mariary]

flash drive is ot being recognized by laptop, then there is no chance to recover the data on it.

[Retallacka]

The same thing happend to me. My USB had Software it needed to install manually, Annoying I know but if you do this it should fix it.

[rubberman]

I have had this problem with Win7 when accessing large (bigger than 2GB) drives that are perfectly accessible from Windows XP and Linux (FAT-32 drives). I don't know why this is an issue with Win7, but it is a PITA!

[sheikhali449]

try to format your usb first and then try again

[thp]

If you format the drive, as suggested by sheikhali449, you should try formatting as NTFS (Windows NT File System). That way you can eleimnate a problem with the FAT system.

[razib8bd]

it is possible that ur usb port is not in working mood. check computer
with a good anti-virus.