Sri Ram asks:
While using my Pen drive (4 GB Kingston Data Traveler 120) in my PC all of a sudden I got the error “File location is not found is shown”
After that my pen drive can’t be detected by any PC. What does this error message mean?
5 Answers -
Shakirah Faleh Lai
July 25, 2012Maybe your pen drive dead, it was a new one?
ferdinan Sitohang
July 25, 2012Do you have another PC or laptop? if you have, try to plug into it and see whether it is readable or unrecognized at all. If it is unrecognized, then your pen drive is already broken, if not then may be there some viruses on your PC or your PC usb dock is already broken.
Pendrive is a small and safely thing which we use for transfers data, video, music etc. It is a flash drive. It depends on his device. There are many pendrive in our world. Once upon a time people use floppy disks. It was so hard for transferring any data or other thing but in our century floppy disk fully avoids this place pendrive filled.
August 1, 2012Janeesh VJ
July 25, 2012test the drive in other computers. If the drive does not show up in several computers, there’s a good chance that it has gone bad
susendeep dutta
July 25, 2012Visit the device manager in your computer and locate your drive to see whether there’s a yellow exclamation mark or not.If yes then reboot your PC keeping your pendrive connected and let Windows allow it to install it.If it still doen’t get detected then try connecting it in another PC.If still no improvement,then your pendrive might be damaged.
Oron
July 25, 2012Sounds like the USB drive is damaged, but it could be a loose connection or a problem at the PC side. Try plugging it into another socket, and check it also in Device Manager as Susendeep suggests. If it is still not working, try it on another computer (ideally a desktop PC, and plug it into one of the sockets on the rear that tend to provide just a bit more power).
If all of these fail, the drive has probably failed, in which case you could send it to a data recovery bureau, but it would be VERY expensive to recover (hundreds-thousands of dollars) if recoverable at all.