Windows 10: USB Sticks showing up as blank icons on Explorer

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  1. /U/GOLLORIUM
    /u/Gollorium Win User

    USB Sticks showing up as blank icons on Explorer

    /u/Gollorium, Dec 6, 2019
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  2. CHRYONN
    Chryonn Win User

    USB stick shows no items

    hi all, i have a 32GB USB memory stick that shows up fine in XP. however when i transfer anything over 2Gb, it shows no items listed as if there's nothing there. but looking at its properties (the pie-chart) it shows there's free space and used space.
    does anyone have this problem or know of any utilities that would allow me to view the used space?
     
    Chryonn, Dec 6, 2019
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  3. LEWY90725
    lewy90725 Win User
    Chkdsk shows errors after formatting the usb stick

    In order to reproduce the problem, I am doing the following steps:

    • I put a text file with a single line of text on the usb file.
    • I plug in a USB stick to a PC and in the explorer window I go to the usb stick drive.
    • I double-click on the text file and open it in notepad.
    • I close the notepad.
    • I the explorer I go to the one level up and I click the right button on the USB drive and choose the properties->format.
    • I formatted the disk with default proposed parameters (FAT32).

    The disk is empty after formatting. At the command line prompt window, I type the chkdsk and the letter of the USB drive and I am receiving information that errors have been found (Convert lost chains to files (y/n)?).

    I checked it with various usb sticks and different systems (Windows 7, 8, 10) and I got the same results.

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    lewy90725, Dec 6, 2019
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  4. SPYSMILY1
    spysmily1 Win User

    USB Sticks showing up as blank icons on Explorer

    Icon for cmd.exe blank in File Explorer


    The icon for cmd.exe is a blank file as in the image.

    USB Sticks showing up as blank icons on Explorer [​IMG]


    You can see the icon is correct in the properties window.

    USB Sticks showing up as blank icons on Explorer [​IMG]


    This is a recent clean install of windows about a week ago. Not sure when they changed but I do remember having the icon correct after the initial install. I've followed the instructions to rebuild icon cache for Windows 10 at http://www.howtogeek.com/232779/how-...in-windows-10/. It did not work.

    Any suggestions would be great.
     
    spysmily1, Dec 6, 2019
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