Pen drive not detected by my laptop

If two computers(and two different operating systems) arenot detecting the pen drive then most likely there is something wrong with thatpen drive and it needs replaced.

In Windows 7 you can check the following.
Plug the pen drive into an available USB port.
Click the Windows Orb(Start menu in XP). Right-click on "Computer"(My Computer in XP) thenleft-click "Manage". If "Computer" does not exist in the "Start" menuthen it should be on the desktop.
In the left pane click "Disk Management".
In the right pane, the first column will show you the drives currentlyinstalled(C:, D:, E:, etc). C: is typically the drive your operating system isinstalled on. To check what drive is what, just click the Windows Orb(Startmenu in XP) then click "Computer"(My Computer in XP). If you see the same driveletters under "Computer" that you see in Disk Management then the pen drive isnot being detected. Do you hear any sounds coming from Windows when you plug inthe pen drive? If you have a different pen drive is that one beingdetected? Are other USB devices detected when plugged into thecomputer?

this mean your pen drive infected by virus, at my experience your file not lost but just the virus hidden your file and change the file attribut as system, and because of that your computer not show your file
scan your pen drive using anti virus, i usually use smadav anti virus, this is the local antivirus at indonesia (indonesia is my country)
download smadav antivirus at http://smadav.net
after download double click smadav antivirus and click start scan, and this antivirus will show your file that hidden and infected virus, if the scan process finish click fix it for turn your file back shown again
i hope this helpful
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If your laptop will detect any other USB drives ....if other usb device detects make sure ur pen drive is affected with virus or pen drive detecting problem

Hi,
1. Connect your pen drive to some other USB ports present at the rear side of your desktop pc.
2. In case of laptop, try connecting to some other available usb ports and check
3. In still not detected, then test your pen drive in some other systems.
4. If still not working, then it implies that your pen drive got detects.
5. If your pen drive is original kingston then you can claim the warranty from the place where you got it.

I hope this information is helpful for you
Thanks

Trouble:
You may have faced a problem when you insert your pen drive and it gets detected very easily but it doesn’t show up as a drive icon in My Computer. The Computer detects the pen drive but data on pen drive is not visible as the pen drive is not visible in My Computer (Explorer).
This problem occurs mainly when windows XP fails to allocate a drive letter to your portable drive(pen drive). It occurs mostly with new pen drives connected to your computer for the first time. If you face such problem then it may not be the pen drive’s fault, rather it may be windows trouble.

If Problem Fix:
Fix:
You can fix this issue by following some simple steps given below.
1. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
2. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window will appear.
3. On this disk management window, you can see some drives including the portable drive. Right click on your portable drive and click change drive letter and paths.
4. Now a assign a new drive letter which is not being used by any of your drives in My Computer.
5. After assigning the new drive letter your portable drive will show up in my computer with other drives

transcend pen drive cannot be detected on my laptop... its coming unsupported.

Go back to that same cafe and reformat you pen drive as FAT 16.
Let me know the results.

Hi,
I dont think this problem is due to the pen drive. It may be more due to the system. Check the driver of the system. This may even happen if the system is affected by virus. So try if your pen drive is getting detected in other computers. If yes, then there may be virus infectiond in your pen drive. So run a virus scan and it may help.

Thanks.

Sir: Transcend pen drive 2GB not getting detected Can you suggest anything?

Check your device manager, maybe you have a hardware failure, because my pen drive detect in vista.