How to USB troubleshoot

Doing a USB troubleshoot on your computer can be frustrating. I am going to explain some ways to USB troubleshoot and get your USB drives working.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• USB problems

1. Update your USB drivers. USB or Universal Serial Bus controllers can become out of date on an older computer. Sometimes the only USB troubleshoot necessary is a USB driver update. That is the best case scenario.

2. Once you finish the first part of the USB troubleshoot by updating your USB drives. Consider uninstalling your USB ports and allowing them to reinitialize. A common USB problem happens when a device is not recognized by your USB drive.
   
   Here is a USB troubleshoot for this common problem.

3. Go to your desktop, right click on my computer.
   Go to Properties, right click the Hardware tab.
   Choose Device Manager, scroll down to USB controllers.
   Click on the + sign, right click Universal host controller.
   Select Uninstall, and you are done with your USB troubleshoot.

4. Insert the unrecognized device into your USB drive again. If you performed a USB troubleshoot your driver should be fixed. This USB troubleshoot process fixed my USB problems. I hope this information helps you fix your problem, or leads you to another potential solution.