

The following seven headings list out what may have caused the “Device Descriptor Request Failed“ issue. Possible Causes and Fixes for "Device Descriptor Request Failed" Error With each cause of the “Device Descriptor Request Failed“ error, I’ll take you through the steps you'll need to follow to resolve the issue. In this article I'll cover the possible hardware-related issues first, and then we'll get into the possible software-related issues. It turns out, however, that this “Device Descriptor Request Failed“ issue can occur for many different reasons, some hardware related and others software related. In this particular case the external device (the flash drive) was the offending party. Well, at the time, I must confess I didn’t have a clue why Windows 10 could not recognise the flash drive. This means I must know everything about USB ports, printers, scanners, basically all things computer related….right? I have the privilege of being the goto family member when anything goes wrong with something computer related, because I am a computer programmer.

Recently my uncle, who lives in Australia, sent my parents, who live in South Africa, a flash drive that was full of pictures of our Australian family getting up to various Australian activities.īut it was very frustrating for my poor Mom when her laptop would not recognise the USB device (the flash drive containing the Australian family pictures).
