Mend Lexar USB Pen Drives

Find out how to mend it for free.

Ask Question

Find out how to mend Lexar usb pen drives

Related Categories

Memory Cards

Mend > USB Pen Drives

Help with Lexar Jumpdrive?

Operating system Win 2K SP4
I have previously used a Lexar jumpdrive to transfer my data between a work Laptop and a home desktop , with no problems.
The drive still works OK on my laptop (also Win 2K) but my desktop will not recognise it (ie the Icon doesnt appear in the Window) Heres the weird bit though all other USB conns work fine and if I click the unplug and eject icon it seems to say it is there but showng the Yellow Exc mark. If I go into the device mgr it is shown but says the device is not started , updating the driver returns a msg something like the device failed to install due a driver function .... not being specified. If I start in safe mode I can install it OK and use it as normal but in normal mode I am back to square 1. I have tried to see if there is a driver conflict with something that doesnt run in safe mode but to no avail (it starts to get beyond me at this point)
The other USB items installed are Printer, Sagem ADSL modem , Scanner and USB sync to Ipaq 2210. All worked OK with each other previously. Other pen drives etc still work fine on this desktop.
Any help gratefully received.

Thanks

Paul

Paul
October 2005

Lexar Memory, USB Pen Drives

All I did to fix this was put it a bottle of alcohol and let it drive and everything works again.

Jeff
September 2007

I have a lexar 128 jump drive and just yesterday my computer recognized it but today, I tried it on both computers in my office. The device itsn't recognized by either one!
I am frantic I have so much data on it. Please help.
718-361-9480
Arobinson2@nyc.school.gov

Angela
December 2006

With your faulty drive plugged in, go to the device manager. You will find the same yellow Icon you described. remove this driver and refresh. The driver will be reinstalled, and the drive will work. I have windows xp, so I can't look to see exactly how the device manager is set up. The important thing is to remove the bad driver. You could then restart to refresh, or sometimes just wait. jeremy has it right though... try his first.

doug
November 2005

i was having the same symptoms, maybe we had the same problem. i went to device manager when i had the drive plugged into a usb port. towards the bottom there was a group called "storage devices" i think, and under it was listed "generic mass storage" or something. it had a red x on the icon. i clicked on it to get to properties, and it said that the device was disabled. i think maybe it did that automatically when i accidentally pulled my drive out of the usb port without going through the "safely unplug hardware" thing that sits in the system tray. anyway, all i had to do was tell it to enable the device, and i'm back in business. hope this helps

jeremy
October 2005