Windows 10: my desktop only appears when I connect the thumb drive

Hi everyone,For some reason my desktop icons have disappeared and my microsoft word also stopped working. But when I put my pen drive when has a 'desktop icon' in it, all work just fine. My roommate has done something with it she cannot remember. I have a feeling she might have cut and pasted certain files. I was wondering how I can get the laptop to work well without the thumbdrive on.

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connection to thumb drive on raspberry pi that is connected to my network

I have installed a raspberry pi3B+ connected via Ethernet cable on my network and have since inserted a thumb drive to it. I am having difficulty knowing how to make that thumb and its contents available on my network. I need help step by step on how
to get it recognized and engaged in my network

 

Transfer a file to a thumb drive

Hi Michael,

Connect the USB Thumb drive

Right click the file you want to transfer and click 'Send to' - flash drive (that drive should be bottom of he 'Send to' list . . .

 

Can a thumb drive be disabled by malware?

There are quite a few possibilities to what happened to your thumb drive:

1. It might be a simple issue where the partition got corrupted: In this case you can go to Computer Management > Disk Management> and check out what partition your thumb drive currently has. If it currently is in RAW format or is just unallocated, I suggest you unallocate the entire drive and make a new partition. It's possible that you can recover upto 99% of your files with a tool like EaseUS DataRecovery Wizard Pro.
   
2. The malware corrupted your thumb drive's firmware: The malware that your thumb drive may have encountered may be similar to something like BadUSB. It may or may not have modified your drive's firmware to transmit malware, but in any case your thumb drive's pretty dead, and there's not much you can do about it.