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outdoortom
Copper Contributor
Jul 07, 2025

USB flash drive showing no media in disk management

I’m having a really frustrating issue with one of my USB flash drives. When I plug it into my computer, it shows up as a removable drive under “This PC.” But when I try to open it, it just says “Please insert a disk into USB drive”. So I went into disk management to check, and there it shows as “Removable” but with No Media. There’s no file system, no partition, nothing. It also shows 0 bytes capacity.

Unfortunately, I have some important files on there that I really need. 😨 Does this mean the USB is dead? How to fix the “usb showing no media in disk management” issue?

disk management
USB devices
windows 10

2 Replies

  • Federer's avatar
    Federer
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 09, 2025

    If the drive shows "No Media" consistently across multiple systems and recovery tools can't access it, it’s likely a hardware failure. In that case, professional data recovery services might be your best bet, especially if the data is critical.

  • soumitra sen gupta's avatar
    soumitra sen gupta
    MVP
    Jul 08, 2025

    Suggestions:

    Try different USB port.

    Try on a different computer.

    Under "Disk Drives", see if it's listed. Try uninstalling and scanning for hardware changes.

    Check under:

    Open CMD as Admin → type diskpart, then list disk

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