help mw fix my usb, in and out of device manager

[Threepwood]

when I was trying to get my tobi eye tracjker to work, I had to turn off, and minimise usb controllers in devive manager to see if the tobi was recognised, now, although all my main usb hardware works, mouse, keyboard, and headphones,
if I put a usb stick into a usb socket, it can be seen in device manager, but not as a drive in ' this PC', is there any way to roll back to default settings?
I don't want to have to reinstall windows to get them working again

 

[Threepwood]

It's just a case of go back and enable them

yeah, but you know what you disabled, I dont! scanning for hardware changes does nothing, I'm afraid. unless you are suggesting that I just uninstall all the usb related things in there, then scan??

 

[Threepwood]

Tested more than 1 flash drive?
Tested in different usb ports?
If only 1 flash drive as orcvader said
Verify it works on another PC,tv,phone,tablet etc
Anything basically that can read flash drives

If i disable usb ports or usb hubs in device manager
It's just a case of go back and enable them
Or if I uninstall them
Just a case of right click Anything in device manager
And scan for hardware changes

yes. ( being a man of sound, reasonable mind, I have tried the obvious, a working usb stick does not show up on my desktop, but it shows up on my laptop, as a useable drive that is. it is definitely my usb hardware settings in device manager that is screwed! because I screwed with them.

 

[Threepwood]

Again, have you check in disk management to see if that can see the USB drive as well? If it can, reinitialising the drive and assigning a drive letter could fix it.

tried that, but nothing, besides. if that were a problem, why would my laptop see it as a drive?

 

[Threepwood]

What's the full system specs?

7800x3d

Asus ROG Strix X670E-A​

Corsair Vengeance RGB EXPO64GB) (4x 16gb)
gigsbyte OC 4090​

 

[Threepwood]

Your laptop would see it
Because it's windows that allocates drive letters
Not the drive itself
Even a second drive on the same pc
With windows installed might see it fine

both are windows

 

[Threepwood]

Again, have you check in disk management to see if that can see the USB drive as well? If it can, reinitialising the drive and assigning a drive letter could fix it.

all my usbs are detected in device manager, but not in disk manager

 

[Threepwood]

that case it means it's not picking up the USB drive as a drive.

*all* my usb sticks?
they all show up on my laptop!

 

[Threepwood]

Yes all your usb sticks
As already explained the drives don't
Allocate drive letters themselves
Windows does

mine used to show up as the name the drive was given upon format, not a drive letter!
for example, my usb that I use for bios flashing is called "boot, and it always came up as" boot" in this PC, not E:
If I put it into my laptop it comes up as "boot" I don't have to prat about assigning it a drive letter or anything, I never have, just name the formatted drive, and that is always what it came up as in windows, like it has always been, just the same if I format a diskette on my amiga, that disk will always be known as the name that it was given
I can't be the only person who uses usbs like this! it's normal, without drive letter assigning! usbs are plug and play

 

[Threepwood]

Did you try the chipset driver I linked?

yes, I'v e tried several time to install chipset drivers, both from the manufacturers software, tande from the link that you provided, no dice!
next i'm jidt going to uninstall anything that looks usb related