| Seeing the flash drive not recognized error pop up on | | | | include having a broken jump drive or a computer |
| your computer is both good and bad news. | | | | running on an operating system that is way out of |
| The bad news is obvious, your jump drive did not | | | | date. |
| work, meaning the problem either lies within your | | | | The best way to fix this problem is to simply try again. |
| computer, your flash drive, or it was a fluky one time | | | | Take your flash drive out, take a 10 second break and |
| incident. The good news is that this situation is fairly | | | | try again. There is little work and no risk involved here, |
| easy to fix and most of the time it will not cost you | | | | so it does not hurt to at least try. If this does not work, |
| any money. | | | | try restarting your computer, at least half of all |
| This message can occur for hundreds of different | | | | computer problems can be solved by a simple restart. |
| reasons, literally. One of the main problems is that | | | | This problem seems to target windows based |
| people often ignore the "safely remove hardware" | | | | computers and laptops primarily, but Mac's and even |
| option when they remove their flash drive from their | | | | PS3's and Xbox 360's have been known to spit out |
| computer. Often the data being downloaded becomes | | | | this error message. Be sure to keep your cool and do |
| corrupted and can corrupt the jump drive altogether. | | | | not assume that your jump drive is broken. |
| Less popular reasons why this message appears | | | | |