My iMac stopped recognizing my flash drive but it still works in my macbook

Receantly my iMac stopped recognizing my usb flashdrive but it will still work in my mackbook both have the new IOS and are '11 models the iMac won't open any usb storage devices I have tried to search the mac as well as powercycle the mac not in finder or anywhere else does it show up. I need to pull some large files off but can't

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If the flash drive was dead then it would not work at all, your iMac just no longer recognizes it after it was improperly removed.
First thing to do is restart the iMac and then see if it shows up.
If not then reset the iMac's SMC exactly as instructed in the following link and then try the flash drive again. > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543
Then if it's still not seen by the iMac look at the "What to do if your computer won't recognize a device" article > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1317?viewlocale=en_US
Dennis

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