USB won't show content.

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If anyone is able to resolve this, I would bet that the answer is probably very simple, just hiding in plain site!

or the windows installation is absolutely borked - because, showing files in explorer is a fundamental part of what windows is supposed to do...

If you're feeling brave and have the inclination you could try a reset keeping files and apps - see if that fixes it.  I'd definitely be doing a backup of it with Macrium Reflect or similar...

If your unsure whether you want to do that and have a spare HDD, you could try clone the drive first and do the reset on the cloned drive...

It all seems a bit over the top given the nature of the problem, but like I say, displaying the files in a folder is a fundamental part of windows.

I was thinking maybe a bios setting with respect to USB but if USB was disabled somehow the drives shouldn't be showing up anywhere at all...