Thursday, April 9, 2015

USB Flash drive not detected in Windows

External storage devices such as USB Flash drives are commonly used to store and share data across computers. Computers with a Windows operating system (OS) will find their computers generally recognize any such devices automatically. However, there are times scenarios when it may not recognize external hard drives or pen drives and they do not show up in My Computer. This is typically an issue with the Windows OS where the USB ports could have been disabled. The usual solution to this problem is to manually re-enable the USB ports by altering the properties of the relevant registry keys. 

If the laptop does not accept or detect any of the pen drives,memory Cards, then you have to change the registry value in hexadecimal for the computer to accept the USB Drive.

This happens because your USB Drive has been disabled.

 To enable please follow the given following steps.



  • 1. Click Start, then click Run.
  • 2. In the Open box, type regedit then click OK.
  • 3. Locate then click the following registry key:
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
  • 4. In the right pane, double-click Start.
  • 5. In the Value data box, type 3, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected) then click OK.
  • 6. Quit Registry Editor.

This method always and should work.

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