- To fix USB device malfunctioned and is not recognized by removing Power Supply.
- Remove your Power Supply plug from the PC.
- Now Restart your PC.
- Now connect your USB device to the USB ports. That's it.
- After the USB device connected to your PC, then plug in Power Supply to PC.
- To fix USB device malfunctioned and not recognized by fixing USB Root Hub
- Open Device Manager. Find the Universal Serial Bus controllers option and single click it to expand.
- Find the USB Root Hub option in this category.
- Right-click it and choose Properties.
- Go to the Power Management tab and uncheck the allow the computer to turn off this device to save power option.
- Then click OK to save your change.
- Open Device Manager (Right Click on Windows Logo and Click Device Manager).
- Now find and expand Universal Serial Bus controllers.
- Now right click on USB drivers and click Uninstall.
- Do for all USB drivers one by one.
- Now, restart your PC. The USB drivers are automatically re-install and solve the corrupted USB devices problem.
- To fix USB device malfunctioned and not recognized by changing the USB Selective Suspend Settings
- Right-click on the battery icon and click Power Options.
- In the Choose or customize a power plan windows, click Change plan settings>
- In the Edit Plan Settings window, click Change advanced power settings.
- In the Power Options window, find and expand USB settings, expand USB selective suspend settings and Disable both On battery and Plugged in settings.
- Then Click Apply and OK to save the settings.
- Recover data when USB device malfunctioned and not recognized.
- Those four ways we mentioned above are all the possible ways said to be helpful to fix USB device malfunctioned and not recognized error. If none of them works for you, please try third-party software to retrieve your data.
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