How to use usb with Win10

Annie1960

Xbigman wrote: »

Put the USB stick in before turning the PC on, it should detect it on start up.
This works with my multi reader. If I start up normally none of the drives is listed but with an SD card already inserted it finds them all ok.



Darren

I've just tried this, and nothing happened.

Lorian

Plug it in then:

start -> run -> device manager

Anything with a yellow exclamation mark?

Annie1960

Lorian wrote: »

Plug it in then:

start -> run -> device manager

Anything with a yellow exclamation mark?

No exclamation marks of any colour.

NiftyDigits

Go through these steps to eliminate the initial possibilities.

Annie1960

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Go through these steps to eliminate the initial possibilities.

I have been through these , and nothing helped. I know the usbs work, one is new and I used it in my TV and my Mac. By the way, it felt rather hot when I removed it from my windows PC, so something must have been happening.

The other one is old and I have not used it for a while.

Annie1960

Nothing at all shows up on devices and printers.

I've checked Device Manager, and usb is there, but I can't use this to put things on it or read things on it.

NiftyDigits

Sounds like a Windows 10 upgrade issue. Probably solved with a clean install of Windows 10, but I'm sure that you won't want to do that.

It's odd that there is no Removable Drive indicated within Disk Management. Check again, looking for entries that approximate with the size of the drive.

If nothing else works, remove everything(that you can) currently connected via USB and then run USB Oblivion after placing a tick in Save Backup .reg file

Annie1960

I have solved the problem.

I had been plugging the usb drives into the side of my monitor. These ports have always worked and I use them often.

I plugged the usbs into the front of my tower, and immediately they were recognised.

I think I may have some problem with the 2 ports on the side of my monitor now. I got the monitor at Christmas 2006, so it's served me a long time.

Time for a new one?

ThemeOne

You might need a specific monitor driver to get the USB ports on the monitor working - have a look on the monitor manufacturer's website. There probably isn't one for Windows 10, since it wasn't automatically installed, but you could try the Windows 7 driver if there is one.

Otherwise, provided the monitor works fine in other respects and you don't particularly need to extra USB ports, there's no reason to replace it, unless you just fancy a new monitor.

wongataa

Annie1960 wrote: »

I have solved the problem.

I had been plugging the usb drives into the side of my monitor. These ports have always worked and I use them often.

I plugged the usbs into the front of my tower, and immediately they were recognised.

I think I may have some problem with the 2 ports on the side of my monitor now. I got the monitor at Christmas 2006, so it's served me a long time.

Time for a new one?

Try taking out and plugging back in the USB cable connecting the monitor to the computer. It may just be a dodgy connection.

If they still don't work and you are happy with the monitor otherwise just plug USB sticks into the computer directly.