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I am faced with USB drive is not accessible, a device which does not exist was specified

Anonymous
2020-07-26T22:24:34+00:00

The way I corrected this issue was to open the HDD's properties, go to the security tab, click on the advanced button, change ownership to yourself, give yourself full access, click ok, make sure you have full access on the General tab within the properties as well. then tah dah issue is gone forever... 

Hi,

I have tried the steps above, but I didn't find any 'security' tab on my usb drive shown to be me as inaccessible.

I also run CHKDSK Command:

Command Prompt

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.959]

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C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk d: /f /r /x

Cannot open volume for direct access.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

What I have done with my USB drive before I am having this issue are as follows:

  1. I I plugged it into  the Windows 10 laptop, and copied some files onto it.(Windows 7 desktop isn't mine)
  2. I then plugged it into the Windows 7 desktop, and I printed some files.
  3. I then removed it from the Windows 7 desktop without 'safely removing it'.
  4. Whenever I am now plugging it into  my Windows 10 laptop, I see this error.

I think it is the drive itself which is having an issue since I tried to plug it into other ports, but it is not now working.

I tried plugging other usb drives to my laptop's port, and they are all detected well by Windows 10.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-03T02:31:33+00:00

    Seems the Philips is dead. You may try to use USB recovery tools, sometimes they may help to recover USB drive functionality but not data/

    As for Kingston you need to restore files or folders to another drive. is it possible?

    Hi,

    I've eventually found a solution to my Kingston 3.0/2.0 USB flash drive , which shows me this error "You need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it"  whenever being plugged into any port of my laptop.

    The troubleshooting is as follows:

    You can try to fix the problems by using the Windows chkdsk function. Click Start, select Run and enter “chkdsk drive_letter :/f” (quotes not included). Tab Enter to start the disk check process. You can also try chkdsk /r, which includes the functions of chkdsk /f. It also marks the bad sectors so that these bad sectors will not be used again, which effectively removes the bad sectors from the system.

    Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.959]

    (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    C:\Users\Mohammad>chkdsk H:/f

    The type of the file system is NTFS.

    The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable or corrupt.

    Reading second NTFS boot sector instead.

    Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

      4864 file records processed.

    File verification completed.

      0 large file records processed.

      0 bad file records processed.

    Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

      20 reparse records processed.

      4906 index entries processed.

    Index verification completed.

      0 unindexed files scanned.

      0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

      20 reparse records processed.

    Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...

    Security descriptor verification completed.

      22 data files processed.

    CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...

    Usn Journal verification completed.

    Correcting errors in the Master File Table (MFT) mirror.

    Correcting errors in the uppercase file.

    Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.

    Windows has made corrections to the file system.

    No further action is required.

      15187967 KB total disk space.

      12057480 KB in 3824 files.

          3480 KB in 23 indexes.

             0 KB in bad sectors.

         71279 KB in use by the system.

         65536 KB occupied by the log file.

       3055728 KB available on disk.

          4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

       3796991 total allocation units on disk.

        763932 allocation units available on disk.

    C:\Users\Mohammad>

    So, now my Kingston flash drive is working fine as it was before, and all my data is there. :)

    After the fixing, when running the command again, there are no errors found:

    Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.959]

    (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk H:/f

    The type of the file system is NTFS.

    Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

      4864 file records processed.

    File verification completed.

      0 large file records processed.

      0 bad file records processed.

    Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

      20 reparse records processed.

      4906 index entries processed.

    Index verification completed.

      0 unindexed files scanned.

      0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

      20 reparse records processed.

    Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...

    Security descriptor verification completed.

      22 data files processed.

    CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...

      3528 USN bytes processed.

    Usn Journal verification completed.

    Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.

    No further action is required.

      15187967 KB total disk space.

      12056704 KB in 3828 files.

          3484 KB in 23 indexes.

             0 KB in bad sectors.

         71791 KB in use by the system.

         65536 KB occupied by the log file.

       3055988 KB available on disk.

          4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

       3796991 total allocation units on disk.

        763997 allocation units available on disk.

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-29T00:04:43+00:00

    In my opinion DMDE is much more functional then Recuva.

    I think it's not a matter of Recuva being little more functional than

    DMDE. However, it is a matter of my flash drives being unrecognized by Recuva.

    Which might be done by any other apps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-27T23:16:11+00:00

    Seems the drive is faulty. Please use third party tools such as DMDE or Recuva in attempts to recover some data.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-26T23:46:43+00:00

    My device having the issue is a removal flash drive, and isn't a hard disk drive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-07-26T22:59:53+00:00

    Hi there! I am Louie, a Microsoft Community member and a fellow Windows 10 user like you. Hope you're doing well and safe there.

    We recommend you to try the steps provided on this link to fix the issue;

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-ph/help/265414...

    Hope this helps

    Sincerely,

    Louie

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