Lost my USB drive

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Hi all you computer geniuses...
I apologize if this has been covered already..
I have recently lost (like yesterday) my USB drive. Its not external. Its
usually designated as the G: drive, and now when I stick my usb pen drive
into it-its doesn't start nor can I find the drive anywhere. Also, I can
hear the "pings" when I insert the drive, it doesn't autoplay, and the icon
(my computer) is nowhere to be found.

So, I went to system restore and I got a message before I started, that
restore wouldn't fix drive G: because its been turned off or uninstalled--or
some such nonsense like that. I went thru some of the posts already, and
yes, I have had an Update from Microsoft recently, I did uninstall some CD
creator software last month, and my computer has just generally been acting
funny (dying?? 3 years old..) lately. Which means that I have done a restore
in the last couple of weeks (it seemed to help). My antivirus is "up to
date" when last checked 2 days ago (Yahoo!).

I haven't checked my pen drive yet--going to school right now to see if it
works in their 'puters.

Any info you could give would be fabulous!
Thanks Michele D.

 

[Glen]

Plug the drive back into any USB socket directly connected to the computer.
Not a hub or pci card. Use pci card if that's all you have.

Open computer management | disk management. Does the drive show up?

If not see if the drive shows up in another computer.

Do other USB devices work in your computer.