Windows 10: windows pop up now tells me that windows does not recognise my compact flash USB device?

I have been using a compact flash USB device for several years to store copies of important files. These stored files no longer appear when I open file explorer and a pop up states "windows does not recognise this device". Help please

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Windows 10 not recognising camera compact flash media

Hi Thanks for your prompt response.

In answer to your questions:-

1. Yes I am plugging my camera containing the Compact Flash media into my Pc by means of a usb cable. As I have always done whilst using Windows 7

2. Yes I have tried using other usb ports, and another PC running Windows 10.

Both PCs recognise my camera, a Fuji Finepix S5 Pro. They also tell me that the used Compact Flash media data size is 3.4 gb. but when I attempt to open the file it states that the file is empty.

I then took the camera and plugged via usb into another Pc running Windows 7, no problems encountered, it, the media was read and I downloaded my files onto a portable hdd. to transfer to my preferred machine, not a good use of my time.

I've had no problems until I 'upgraded to Windows 10. There must be others in this situation.

All my drivers are current, and changing usb ports, and rebooting is futile.

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Annoying pop up: "USB device not recognised"

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Which version of Windows?

Don