6 Common Pen drive Problems and Their Solutions

Pen drives or flash drives are the best way to carry huge amount of data from one place to another. Pen drives offer a cheap and reliable way to store data. They are reliable because unlike other storage mediums, they don’t have moving parts. Pen drives stores data in magnetic form and that’s why they are re writable in nature. But despite of having so many advantages of using pen drives, there are some disadvantages too. These disadvantages are nothing but only some common pen drive problems that most of us face regularly.

So today I am listing 6 common pen drive problems and their solutions. 

1) Generic Volume Can’t Be Stopped Right Now: This is a common pen drive problem which occurs on windows operating system when we try to remove pen drive by clicking on safely remove hardware option. If you are getting this problem with your pen drive and want to fix it by following some easy tips, then must read this article: How to fix Generic Volume Cannot Be Stopped Right Now Pendrive Problem. 

2) Remove Write protection From Pen drive: This is another common pen drive problem which comes when we want to delete the data from pen drive. You can remove write protection of a pen drive from reading this article: How to Remove Write Protection from Pen drive.

3) Pen drive is Detected but Not Showing in My Computer: Sometimes when we plug-in a pen drive to our computer, the system instantly detects it but doesn’t show it in My Computer.  This happens due to disk management. In case if you want to remove this problem, Read this article: How to Fix Pen drive is detected But not showing in My Computer Problem. 

4) Problem In formatting Pen drive: Sometimes when we try to format our pen drive, a pop up box appears which says “Can’t format the drive”. There are many ways to solve this pen drive problem, In case if you are facing the same problem with your pen drive, then read this article to solve it: Fix Can’t Formatthe drive pen drive problem.

5) Please Insert a Disk into Drive Pen drive Problem: This is a very common pen drive problem and comes when we insert our pen drive in our PC and try to access it via my computer. Due to this problem, Computer shows us a message which says “Please insert a Disk into drive”, if you want to solve this pen drive problem then read this article: How to fix Please insert a Disk into Drive Pen drive Problem.

6) USB Device Not Recognized or Malfunctioned: This problem comes when we plug in a pen drive to our computer, The computer displays a message in tray, which says “One of the USB device attached to your computer has malfunction”, You can fix USB Device Malfunctioned problem by following this article: How to fix USB Device has Malfunctioned Pen drive Problems.

If you are facing another pen drive problem, then you can share it in comment box below. I would feel glad to fix your pen drive problem.