I have a flash drive and it wont load

[rospikealf]

hi there i have a newish laptop running on vista home premium and i had a flash drive (kingston) which i lost and it loaded immediately, i bought another one a vernatum and it wont load it just asks for a disc which there isnt 1? so i bought another 1 a sandisc cruzer 2 gig which is the same wont load and yet loads on my mums laptop with the same spec and also vista? i checked on the device mananger on seria ports and it is listed but says cant find drivers? does anyone know what i can do cos i have 2 x 2gig flash drives and loads of colloege work and im desperate? any help on how to load would be appreciated

[figure]

Unplug the computer, uninstall any and all drivers related to it, reboot, plug the device back in, and re-install the drivers.

Also check to see if the drive is formatted in NTFS or FAT 32. Format the drive in NTFS and it should recognize again.

[rospikealf]

hi there i have tried device manager and it doesnt say anything is wrong at all? i dont know what else to do but thanks for answering