I recently replaced the Windows OS on my old ASUS S200E Laptop with Ubuntu 18.04. I installed Ubuntu using a flash drive. after installation Ubuntu worked perfectly and so did the flash drive, which I had since used for other things again. This was about a year ago.
Today, for the first time since installing Ubuntu on this machine, I had to use a flash drive on this Ubuntu laptop. I was trying to transfer some very large files from my windows machine. Plugged the flash drive into this Ubuntu laptop and .....nothing. It is not picking/reading up the flash drive. I tried a few different ports, I tried finding it via terminal.... nothing, no sign of it.It is as if i have nothing plugged in.
Confused, I took this flash drive back to my windows machine.Now same thing there, no sign of a flash drive, windows is not reading it.
I thought perhaps the flash drive just coincidentally gave up on me,so I brought out another one, plugged it into the windows machine, it works, I put the files in question onto the flash drive then plugged the flash drive into my Ubuntu machine and.......... same as before, there is no sign of a flash drive even existing. Transferred it back to windows machine and here also, there is no sign of the flash drive.........
So what is happening... I do not know. Somehow Ubuntu is killing my flash drives, or at least rendering them undetectable. I am now too scared to plug any further flash drives into my Ubuntu machine.
Has anyone had similar issues and have any idea how to fix it...
super greatfull for ideas on how to fix the flash drive killing issue with my ubuntu laptop.
TY.