Computer restarts on inserting USB pen drive

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Trouble:

There are lots of bad viruses worms and Trojan’s traveling around with you in your USB pen Drive many times. The USB Pen Drive viruses cause all sorts of problems to your computer. We have recently written an article about top 10 USB pen drive problems and solutions.  But there are more than that.

One of our readers reported

Whenever I Insert my USB Pen Drive in My Computer, it restarts the computer in one minute.

Now that is a really annoying situation. As is said that prevention is better than cure, read these tips for avoiding such situation. And read on the fix for cure to this problem.

Fix:

First of all, lets see the reason

Why Computer Restarts on Inserting USB Pen Drive?

The reason is simple,once some virus has infected the pen drive and has created autorun entries, it can run any-kind of task through auto-play feature.

So to fix it, we first of all need to Disable Autoplay on all removable drives. See this tutorial for the same.

After this, Insert the pen drive, do not open the drive or double click on it, simply insert it. Now its time for some cleaning by removing Virus created autorun entries, see this tutorial for removing autorun entries.

That is it, its done. But if you still face problem with the drive, see this tutorial to take data backup from the drive and after backup, format the pen drive. We hope you find it useful.

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Author + Admin: Abhishek Bhatnagar
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