If you prefer to check disk using command prompt, follow the steps given below: After checking, you can try to open the pen drive again. Then click on “ Tools” tab and click “ Check”. In File Explorer, right-click your pen drive and choose “Prosperities”. If your pen drive is not working suddenly, you can run disk checking to settle pen drive detected but cannot be opened issue. In the pop-up window, click “ Change… ” and assign a new drive letter to the pen drive.Īfter that, you’ll be able to see the pen drive in File Explorer. Find out where the pen drive is, right-click it and choose “ Change Drive Letter and Path…”ģ.

Open Disk Management: Click “Start”, right click “Computer” and go to “ Manage” >“ Storage” > “ Disk Management”.Ģ. To fix this problem, you can change pen drive’s drive letter. Then, you may be unable to open your pen drive/USB flash drive. Windows assigns the drive letter to pen drive or USB dynamically so that a drive that was labeled as F drive might be labeled as G if another drive is connected. Pen drive showing up in Explorer but not opening can be caused by many events and three main elements and solutions will be are presented in the following text. ☞ Solution for pen drive not appearing in Windows Explorer ☞ Solutions for pen drive showing but inaccessible in Windows Explorer To fix the issue effectively, figure out the condition of your pen drive and refer to corresponding solutions.

Two different situations of pen drive unable to be opened have been described in the above part. Then, how can I open it? How to solve pen drive detected but not opening issue? But after opened File Explore, I found the pendrive not showing up. Situation 2: I want to back up my important data from my computer hard drive to a Kingston 64GB pen drive. How to solve this pen drive showing but not opening issue? I located the pen drive in File Explorer but I cannot open it and only received the error message that E: / is not accessible.

Situation 1: To transfer files between my two computers, I connected a SanDisk 32GB pen drive to my computer. Help! My pen drive is detected but not opening

Pen drive detected but not opening