You can also click Permissions from the Security menu. 3.Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevices 4.Optional step which not required in Windows XP or later, right click on MountedDevices, then select Permissions. 2.Open Registry Editor by typing regedit (or regedt32.exe in older Windows prior to XP) in Run command of Start Menu and then press Enter. Or if users wish, can opt to delete any reference to the detected drives by the device so that when the storage device is plugged in again, the whole drive letter assignment will be start from fresh, and clean.
The workaround fix relies on the registry tweak below to change the drive letter that has been previously assigned to the mounted USB or FireWire portable mobile flash or hard disk drive. In this situation, there is another workaround hack to fix the no USB or FireWire drive issue. However, the disconnect conflicted storage device to free up the drive letter fix may not be practicable or usable by some, such as computers which are on a network or system running data transfer activity to all its drive assignments continuously flow without stopping, and thus disconnect or reassigning any mapped drives, networked drives, removable drives or other storage drives is not an option. ' nt leftCol Solution to USB or FireWire drive not showing. There is a more involved fix I searched and found. Right click on the USB drive and change the drive letter. After a lot of Google searches, I fixed it by going into Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Disk Management. If you remove it at the wrong time it will always give you that error when you put it back. Windows somehow locks a drive letter to a particular USB stick. I thought I lost one of my 8GB sticks because of that error. He wrote:'This is actually a common problem. 0 G Guest Guest #3 This is an earlier post which I have pasted over here - thanks to Turk for this and hope it helps. it is fake (and if it is not fake) your drive needs to be low level formatted with the manufactures utility.
Does anyone know how to solve my problem? Thanks 0 pjmelect Distinguished 3,171 0 21,160 159 #2 You could have bought a fake USB flash drive, check out this forum. i tried using the pen drive in diff comp bt still the same result. Under there at the disk there, detected Removable(G but no media. Insert a disk and try again.'Then, i go to computer management,and take a look at my disk management,under volume there, the pendrive drive is not under the volume. I try to format my pendrive, it comes out another error saying 'There is no disk in drive.
Previous Next Sort by votes M mannkhan Distinguished 2 0 18,510 0 #1 Hi thr, i just bought a Kingmax pendrive at pc fair last June, it works fine till last few days, when i plugged in the pen drive, the computer can detect the pendrive, but when i double click it at my computer, it coms out a dialogue box 'Please insert a disk into drive'. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
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