16GB Cruzer Blade works on Samsung TV but stopped working on PC (Win 7)

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I have 2x 16GB Cruzer Blades that I was using for a few weeks and suddenly they stopped working. So as a trial I plugged them into my TV and the TV see’s all the files there and can access the media files. When I plug the drive back into my PC it shows up in Device Manager - Disk Drives but in Explorer it shows a a new Removable Disk but with 0 bytes of 0 bytes. I’ve been looking through forums all over the internet and although this seems fairly common, the solution is not to be found. Most people say your PC needs updating but I fail to see why because all of my other external USB disks and drives still work fine. Anyone got any help on this?

Thanks,

Dave

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At device manager, try to right click on the Sandisk entry and hit on Scan for Hardware changes. That would refresh the drivers. 

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It sounds as if the File Allocation Table on the drive may have gotten messed up.  Try running CHKDSK on it.  Also try rebooting the pc.