Cannot see my USB on my computer

I have a 16 Gigabyte integral USB, I use it to store important collage works, however recently I used this USB device to try out the windows 7 ready boost and it was working fine until a few days ago when I want to update my collage documents that i realised
i could not see the USB on my computer. I have tried to uninstall all the USB devices from device manager and it still didn't work. I have also tried other similar techniques but no success. Any help would be much appreciated.

USB storage is slower than RAM. ReadyBoost only helps if your computer doesn’t have enough RAM. If you have more than enough RAM, ReadyBoost won’t really help.
1
Insert the USB drive that has the copy of ReadyBoost on it that you want to remove.
2
Click the "Start" button and then click the "Computer" or "My Computer" link.
3
Scroll to the "Device with removable storage" section and locate the USB drive that has ReadyBoost installed on it.
4
Right-click on the drive. From the resulting menu, select the "Properties" option.
5
Click the tab titled "ReadyBoost."
6
Click the option titled "Do not use this device." When you are finished, click "Apply," followed by "OK." ReadyBoost is deleted from the drive and the available space can now be used for extra storage.
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