I'm having problem using my flash drive on Surface RT. recently, 95% of the time, when I plug my Extreme USB 3.0 flash drive into Surface RT, I get no response from the system, the indicator on the flash drive does not illuminate, there is no sound (the sound that plays out of speaks when a USB device is connected), and no drive appears in "my computer". I have been using this USB 3.0 flash drive on my Surface RT for over a month, and it was OK before, and i don't really know when exactly it started to act up. this is the only USB 3.0 flash drive I have now, all my other flash drives which are USB 2.0 work perfectly on Surface RT, and all my external HDDs work fine as well. the problematic USB 3.0 flash drive works fine with my Lenovo T420 and T500 with no problem at all if I leave the Extreme USB 3.0 flash drive in the USB port while I restart Surface, 100% of the time the flash drive is detected and recognized and working fine after reboot, but when I reject the drive and plug it back in, no response again. I have tried to change drive letter, reformat the flash drive, even reinstalled Surface RT in case it was a registry problem. doesn't change anything. I have contacted Sandisk and the only response I got was "we didn't test it on ARM based system"... any help?

According to research its not a device issue, more of an issue with the drivers, as it affects Windows 8 as a whole. If you install older drivers for Windows 7 on 8 it apparently fixes the issue. However this is not an option on the Surface RT, as it enforces driver signing and its not possible to bypass this. And these drivers aren't signed for Windows 8

saw this somewhere and it worked for me - restart with the drive inserted and it's recognized. But take it out I have to restart again for it to be recognized. Just amazed at how something so basic could have gotten through - if MSFT was doing this as a challenge to force OEMs to make better stuff, then all they've done is reinforced the concept that it is ok to release buggy stuff.

My Corsair Flash Voyager GT 3.0 Drive isn't recognised by my Surface either, and I have tried it on a few of them, seems to be something wrong with the USB drivers on the Surface RT

Same thing with me. The 3.0 drive works well on my surface pro and my wife's 2.0 USB macbook and my old MacBook pro but doesn't get acknowledged by my surface RT. My other usb 2.0 drives work fine. BTW - I have 2 identical sandisk 3.0 64gig drives and neither works. So it's not the drives do you have any problem with other usb 3.0 devices, such as external hard disks?

Surface RT and Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive

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I'm having problem using my flash drive on Surface RT.

recently, 95% of the time, when I plug my Extreme USB 3.0 flash drive into Surface RT, I get no response from the system, the indicator on the flash drive does not illuminate, there is no sound (the sound that plays out of speaks when a USB device is connected), and no drive appears in "my computer".

I have been using this USB 3.0 flash drive on my Surface RT for over a month, and it was OK before, and i don't really know when exactly it started to act up.
this is the only USB 3.0 flash drive I have now, all my other flash drives which are USB 2.0 work perfectly on Surface RT, and all my external HDDs work fine as well.
the problematic USB 3.0 flash drive works fine with my Lenovo T420 and T500 with no problem at all
if I leave the Extreme USB 3.0 flash drive in the USB port while I restart Surface, 100% of the time the flash drive is detected and recognized and working fine after reboot, but when I reject the drive and plug it back in, no response again.
I have tried to change drive letter, reformat the flash drive, even reinstalled Surface RT in case it was a registry problem. doesn't change anything.

I have contacted Sandisk and the only response I got was "we didn't test it on ARM based system"...

any help?

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2013-03-09T14:18:15+00:00

According to research its not a device issue, more of an issue with the drivers, as it affects Windows 8 as a whole. If you install older drivers for Windows 7 on 8 it apparently fixes the issue. However this is not an option on the Surface RT, as it enforces driver signing and its not possible to bypass this. And these drivers aren't signed for Windows 8
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2013-03-09T14:06:37+00:00

saw this somewhere and it worked for me - restart with the drive inserted and it's recognized. But take it out I have to restart again for it to be recognized.

Just amazed at how something so basic could have gotten through - if MSFT was doing this as a challenge to force OEMs to make better stuff, then all they've done is reinforced the concept that it is ok to release buggy stuff.
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2013-03-09T12:35:18+00:00

My Corsair Flash Voyager GT 3.0 Drive isn't recognised by my Surface either, and I have tried it on a few of them, seems to be something wrong with the USB drivers on the Surface RT
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2013-03-04T12:28:59+00:00

Haven't tried any
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2013-03-04T07:39:01+00:00

Same thing with me. The 3.0 drive works well on my surface pro and my wife's 2.0 USB macbook and my old MacBook pro but doesn't get acknowledged by my surface RT. My other usb 2.0 drives work fine.

BTW - I have 2 identical sandisk 3.0 64gig drives and neither works. So it's not the drives

do you have any problem with other usb 3.0 devices, such as external hard disks?
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