Windows USB issue

I'm running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on my laptop and I seem to having an reoccurring issue where any storage drive I connect to my computer, will not recognize within Windows. I have a 32gb, an 8 gb, and a few 4gb flash drives and all of them seem to have this issue randomly. Today I connected a harddrive enclosure in and it still had the same issue. I tried it in another PC and it worked fine. All of them appear in device manager, but never show up in windows explorer. I know the USB ports are fine as my mouse connection never has an issue.

Any ideas?

 

Download USBdeview and delete any vendor specific USB drive. This utility will show drivers that have been connected. Remove any devices except your mouse and keyboard if USB.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

http://www.majorgeeks.com/USBDeview_d6115.html

 

Besides the USBdeview, check out this post by DavidGP.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=1716561&postcount=3

 

Thanks for your help. Last night I went through and tried it again. For some reason, windows was giving the USB drives the same drive letter as a mapped network drive. I went into computer management and re-assigned some drive letters and that seems to have solved the issue.

Thanks again, that's a pretty cool tool.

 

Good catch. Thank for the feedback.