BlazeCarolina Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I can not get my new Survivor Stealth USB flash drive to be recognized. It keeps coming up as a device. I have tried for a few hours to get this thing working. Anyone who can provide some help? If I posted this in the wrong forum, I am sorry. I am new here. Just trying to get my drive working. Here is a thread I started on another forum because it wouldn't let me post here. Will give you an idea of what I have tried. http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f88/what-am-i-doing-wrong-flash-drive-2454837/index2.html Thank you for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 If it's detected and working fine on another laptop, There might be something preventing it from working. Does Device Manager list any errors for the drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 No sir. Says it is working properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 If possible,can you take a screenshot of the drive in Disk Manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted April 30, 2013 Author Share Posted April 30, 2013 Yes sir. Thanks for coming back. Am starting to think this thing was a waste of money and I am about to just test the 4G impact claims of this thing and be done with it, haha. http://i44.tinypic.com/3134sgh.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/f84gl.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 I meant Disk Manager, It should be in Computer Management under Storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 1, 2013 Author Share Posted May 1, 2013 Sorry. I read it wrong. Thanks for coming back. Says the device is working properly though. http://i43.tinypic.com/nxjn2b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Can you format the drive or assign it to a drive letter? What OS is on the identical laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 2, 2013 Author Share Posted May 2, 2013 Nope. I keep getting errors on this laptop when I try to format or assign to a letter. They suggested this in the other thread. Both computers are Windows 7. The error basically says the disk management console is not up to date and to restart it and try again or to restart the computer and try again. I have tried both, same error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Does it happen on the second computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 2, 2013 Author Share Posted May 2, 2013 I can format it or assign it to a drive letter on the other laptop. Do you think that will help? I think I have tried that, but open to any and all suggestions. Seems like I wasted my money. Would love for it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 On the other thread, did the tool remove any old USB devices? If your not sure do this, Unplug the drive first. Advanced system settings>Environment Variables>Click "New" under User Variables for -USERNAME- Variable name: devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices Variable value: 1 Open Device Manager>View>Show hidden devices>Expand "Universal Serial bus controllers and right-click>uninstall any grey entries. Plug the drive in, does it work now? If not, Open CMD as admin>diskpart>list volume>If you can see the Survivor drive (take note of the volume #)>select volume # (# being the volume # of the drive)>assign letter Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 3, 2013 Author Share Posted May 3, 2013 I tried the first solution, it didn't work. I thought it was going to, because when I plugged it back in, it installed the driver and actually called it a mass storage on the little popup. The second solution I think is over my head. I opened cmd as admin and just typed diskpart, then list volume. Is that what I was suppose to do? Didn't see it on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 3, 2013 Author Share Posted May 3, 2013 I have gone through and manually tried uninstalling all the USB devices too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Last thing i can suggest is to try a reinstall of Windows. You can wait for a Corsair employee to help you out but you'll have to wait until Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 4, 2013 Author Share Posted May 4, 2013 Alright. Well, thank you for trying to help me. I have been wondering why they haven't showed up to help me yet. Did I post this in the wrong forum or something? I started this thread on a Tuesday. Doesn't make them look too good for customer service to leave me hanging. Next time I will just stick to the simple cheap memory you get at Wal-Mart. Never had a problem with SanDisk. Even this site gives me problems. Keeps saying... " Your submission could not be processed because the token has expired. Please reload the window. " I have reloaded it multiple times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 6, 2013 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 6, 2013 It is not being detected properly according to what you posted, on the system it is working I would suggest using the format utility at http://www.sdcard.org and before you remove it from this system remove the listing in device manager and disconnected all other devices especially the Xbox that is not being detected either, Once you have it reformatted then try and connect it again and see if detects it as a Corsair Flash Survivor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 The laptop it does work on is not connected to the internet. I will try to reformat it again though and see what happens. Do you think the Xbox is somehow causing a problem? Thanks for trying to help me out. Glad to see someone from Corsair ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 I am reformatting the drive now with the default windows tool. Long reformat, not quick. I downloaded the reformat tool from the site you provided. Will try that after the reformat. I removed the Xbox from both the places I saw it in the device manager just in case it may be causing an issue. I will report back here when I get done with everything. Both my SanDisk and Lexar drives work fine. Just plug and go. Sandisk is 16gb and Lexar is 4gb. Not sure if any of that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Ok, I was initially disappointed because it didn't work again, but then I saw it had seemingly showed up in two different spots. It identified it as a disk drive that was working properly and up to date, even identified it by name, but it also showed up as an unknown device. The unknown device had no driver at all installed. I took a gamble and assumed this was the flash drive and told it to detect drivers. It installed a driver, and it is now showing 29.9 gb of memory on drive F. It may be working. It was drive G on the other computer, but I really don't care as long as it works. I will test it out tonight and if it isn't working I will certainly be back. Thank you Toasted, and thank you RAM GUY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeCarolina Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Gentlemen...we have success! Thank you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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