
Depending on whether it shows up or not, use an appropriate section below to fix your issue. To verify this, go to This PC > Manage > Disk Management and check whether your USB drive shows up there. It might be that the drive is visible in the Disk Management tool.

Generally, a USB drive not showing up means the drive is disappearing from File Explorer.

Many users have encountered this problem - USB not showing up on Windows 10. Other USB will read in my file explorer, just not these 64GB thumb drives." - from I have 10 of the same brand/size USB drives, and I may have accidentally put a boot drive in my system while it was running (thinking it was a different USB). I formatted the drive to FAT32, but it still doesn't appear in the explorer file. I have tried updating drivers and troubleshooting devices, and hardware and nothing came up. "Hello, I can reach the USB from the device manager and format it.

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