How To Fix "Please Insert a Disk into Drive" Error In Windows

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Trouble:

We just got a quite common problem regarding pen drives, one of our reader Emmanuel Ayivi sent us a problem regarding pen drive detection.

When ever I insert my (4GB my flash) pen drive into my PC and any other PC I am
unable to open it. The message that am prompted with is “insert disk into drive”

 

As it’s clear from the message in quotes, this problems occur when you insert when your removable drive to your USB port, it detects your removable drive but throws an error window saying – Please Insert a Disk into Drive \ Device when you try to open it.

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One of the most possible cause of this issue when you have a removable drive which try to get a drive letter which is already reserved.

 

This could happen due to the default behavior of Windows XP when you may have e: drive assigned to a network drive or other hardware drive and removable pen drives tries to occupy e: drive as drive letter.

Fix:

In order to resolve the issue, use the following methods given below:

 

Method 1:

 

Insert the removable disk in the removable drive before you start your computer. But in this case, make sure that the first boot device in BIOS is not USB drive, else computer may not boot at all.



 

Method 2:

 

1. Log in as Administrator account in windows or any other account with administrative privileges

2. Insert your removable disk into the USB port.

3. Click Start, now right click on my computer and select manage

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4. Now, click Disk Management

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5. Right click on your removable drive partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths under Disk Management ( you can find your drive easily through size )

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6. Change the drive letter some other drive letter like X: or Z: which is not reserved by some other drive on windows.

7. That’s it! Done.




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Sue Massey says, October 10th, 2008   

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Yatindra Pathak says, October 12th, 2008   

Dear Sir

i have install Windows Xp in My intel celeron Computer with Config 155 htz before when i install my Xp it work fine but now its not work as i got new drive i formated it properly install correct but when it come to when it has to launch the desktop it restart again ie the stating bar which it show on the start after boot with black screen and bar running in the middle hope u understand it what i mean

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arihant says, October 19th, 2008   

Hi!!
This solution does not work for me.
No matter in what computer i insert it shows the message.
It does not even shows up on Linux & Mac OS.

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Markmanoza008 says, November 27th, 2008   

Don’t work on me, my flash drive’s led don’t like but the computer is detecting it, it even appear on my computer but still not accessible, it says “please insert a drive into drive Z:”. how you someone help me.

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heri says, December 20th, 2008   

This not work, i don’t see my flash disk drive in Computer Management, even i change the drive path. Does someone have other solution.

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Nazeer says, December 25th, 2008   

The drive just says ‘no media’ Have you got a fix? I can see the properties which says 0 space written, 0 space available. I can change the drive letter but it does not solve the problem.

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EC says, January 17th, 2009   

Not working because the removable disk drive will not show in the Disk Managment window.
- EC

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john says, February 18th, 2009   

This didn’t work for me.Here’s how I fixed it, even though the only way was to format it.
Right click on “my computer”.Then manage.Then disk management.Select the drive, then format it.

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mahendra says, February 19th, 2009   

The drive just says ‘no media’ Have you got a fix? I can see the properties which says 0 space written, 0 space available. I can change the drive letter but it does not solve the problem.

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OrganicTheRapper says, March 7th, 2009   

Hey, I was able to change the drive letter as suggested, however it did not make my files accessible.

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Shivesh says, March 14th, 2009   

Thanks

It really Helped me a lot to format my pen drive

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roby says, April 9th, 2009   

Dear sir i have same problem with my pen drive ..

But sir when i connect to PC its show found new hardware
and do okayy other processs. but when i open the drive
of pendrive its show PLZ INSERT A DISK INTO DRIVE H:

I;ll try above given solution but in DISK MANAGMENT window
its not show.. plz give me solution what to do..

PLZ Help Me.

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dragondav3 says, April 12th, 2009   

I have the same issue as roby. It doesn’t appear in that list.
Please help. I have files on there I need for school

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BarryM says, April 23rd, 2009   

I have the same problem as dragondav3 and roby. My USB is being recognised but when I try to open it I got “Please insert a disk into Removable Disk (F:). It has happened all day on many computers. Please help me, like roby I need my work for school!!!

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rajasekaran says, April 30th, 2009   

Dear sir i have same problem with my pen drive ..

But sir when i connect to PC its show found new hardware
and do okayy other processs. but when i open the drive
of pendrive its show PLZ INSERT A DISK INTO DRIVE H:

I;ll try above given solution but in DISK MANAGMENT window
its not show.. plz give me solution what to do..

DISK MANAGMENT also cannot detect my pen drive
PLZ Help Me.

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kraja says, May 1st, 2009   

i am also have the same problem , it detect my flash drive and shows , “your new hardware is ready to use” , in the my computer i can see the drive letter & volume name. if i try to open that the drive “please insert a disk into drive f:”

how to solve this ,
please let me know

kraja

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fahmi hamdani says, May 11th, 2009   

yes, it’s solve the problem, but i have another problem within the error message. it makes me losing my task manager and even i can’t enabling it using the administsrtive tools.how do i can fix this problem? please. i have my brain stop working to fix this problem…

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samuel says, May 15th, 2009   

pls,my computer still displays ‘there is no disk in this the drive,please insert a disk into the drive, even when no disk is inserted, and there is also a virtual removable disk, when i click my computer icon. wat do ido to disable the virtual removable disk.

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madhu says, May 18th, 2009   

I have Same problem

there is no disk in this the drive,please insert a disk into the drive, even when no disk is inserted,

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Stanley says, June 11th, 2009   

Hello the above solution will not solve the problem. Please give us some other sollution….

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arasu says, July 6th, 2009   

sir the problem is when i open the pen drive it show please insert a drive into disk i in disk management the removable disk is not shown even i change letter path its not working please help me sir

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jide says, July 10th, 2009   

the above does not solve the problem, all the same thank you for trying to help.

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andrei says, July 22nd, 2009   

The same probleam i have too, plase insert a drive in drive g

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norbi says, July 26th, 2009   

but i cant find my removable disk into disk management..where can i format it?

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sugat says, August 11th, 2009   

i have try 2nd method but i didn’t get solution,
please help me !!

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Derron says, August 11th, 2009   

None of the solutions worked for me either. Changing the drive name didn’t do any good. (This only works if you had that drive letter is mapped; or used by some other drive already. I tryed it anyway and sure enough it does not work.) When I tryed to reformat, it thinks it’s a CD or DVD ROM Drive… and won’t format it because computer thinks there is no disk (CD or DVD) in drive. Still looking for ways to fix it… if it’s even possible. Please post solution if anyone finds a way!

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Harsha says, September 6th, 2009   

i have the same problem, i tried both the methods and its still not working

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saintgemer says, September 10th, 2009   

guy try to used the formating option of your flash disk
on the computer management,

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Dave says, October 8th, 2009   

My experience with fixing this, nothing worked until I tried changing the drive letter. This change took, but I still got an error. But I left the drive plugged in and after about half an hour, something must have timed out and presto, I got the popup asking me what I wanted to do with the drive (open files, play media, etc) that I always get on insertion.

Note, once you have the drive working, write something to it and do a proper disconnect, otherwise you may have to repeat this fix next time you plug it in.

Dave

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Sanjeev says, October 12th, 2009   

Hi All, recently I’ve purchased HP 8GB v155w pendrive, from last one day I’m facing the same problem as mentioned by most of users.
I’ve workout something to diagnose this issue and feel due to some reason (either hardware or virus) it’s file system got currupted (something like MBR corrupt in HDD).
Whenever I inster my Flash Drive, XP show “USBest USB2FlashStorage USB Device” hardware found and installed successfully, but when my Flash Drive was working fine, it was showing “HP V155W USB Device” found. Same was showing if I’m going to Device manager and selecting Generic Device and checking the Properties. so it seems, it’s internal default file system got corrupted and Manufacturer can only do something as there no such utility I found to fix this issue.

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Sanjeev says, October 15th, 2009   

yesterday, I went to HP Service center and shown them the usb flash driver, they have checked it and provided me a new Pack.

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AgentSil says, October 18th, 2009   

Well..seems like all those method doesnt work anymore.. maybe it is completely a hardware failure..
dont waste ur time to try all those method above..
just dump it and buy a new pendrive.. im just bought 8gb kingston pendrive and it was ended sumthg like this error..

im forced to buy a new one..:(

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uvraj says, October 23rd, 2009   

sir i have 2gb flash drive iball whenever i insert the disk it gets detected but is not accessible and give the message insert disk into G i try to format it but i cant i have also tried from the disk management but i didnt suceeded so please help me out it there is other software or not

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uvraj says, October 23rd, 2009   

in my last comment i want to ask that if there is external software of driver for this problem

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Rohan says, November 7th, 2009   

Such a long Discussion . But we Reaching No Where so it is better that Buy a new Pen Drive from Market & Start working with It

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jorge says, November 15th, 2009   

I am installing a software. after installing it, when I run the program, it says something like “please insert disk in the drive in the highest alphabetical order”. how do i solve it? how can I run the program? by the way, I am using a laptop and there are no other disk drives. only one. thanks

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Ask TroubleFixers – Solutions To Computer Problems – #18 says, November 16th, 2009   

[...] 1. Faulty pen drive -  Try use the drive on some other computer to ensure that the drive is not faulty. 2. Drive letter not assigned properly – See this tutorial – How to fix “Please insert a disk onto drive error” [...]

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drvimalthareja says, November 24th, 2009   

the same thing happened with my transcend flash drive. transcend people have a flash utility that fixed this problem. but no such thing is available for kingston. so not been able to fix my kingston drive.

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Nezumi says, December 2nd, 2009   

Does not work on my Flash Drive since It does not show any (I see the thumbdrive but Partition is a No no).

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vikas says, December 9th, 2009   

My pen drive was askin to be formatted an when i went through this procedure and formatted it . It strted working fine thanks a lot for the trick pal

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sundar says, January 7th, 2010   

i doesnt works man

tel me another solution

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indian_volcano says, January 11th, 2010   

wow awesome THANKS so much

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Lankas says, January 15th, 2010   

Its because the file system is corrupt. Its not in all cases that opening throws out the error captured in the graphic above is a drive letter conflict. If you get to a lower version, may be 98 which will certainly manage to open.. you can format your pen drive to restore the file system. This has worked for me before, but this time around.. I don’t know where I can get Win 98.

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ed says, January 28th, 2010   

i was getting the “please insert disc” message on my LAPTOP and i fixed it as follows:

1. Purchase an “optical lens cleaner”, they are a disc with a series of tiny brushes.
2. According to the instructions, you must insert the disc and press “play” but of course, your drive will not recognize that there is a disc in the drive!
3. take a clean finger and gently turn the cleaning disc on it axis for a minute.
4. push the disc into the drive and if you have my luck, it will start to play!
Ed

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Rahul says, February 18th, 2010   

I was try this method 2 but it still gives the same problem “Insert ths disc into Removable Drive”. Tell the another solution to solve this probelm.

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chun` says, February 20th, 2010   

how it will fix the pen drive installation of tracks that has corrupt every time done installing

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danish says, February 22nd, 2010   

sir i change the Change Drive Letter and Paths but still it show please insert a disk
its show same error
plz solve my problem

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arunkumar says, February 23rd, 2010   

sir, i insert pen drive in to computer, it would be show up in bottom of desktop. but in my computer then click usb drive shows error msg like” plz insert disk into the usb drive”,,
plz slove my problem…..

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Sarv_2k says, February 25th, 2010   

Hi Friends,

I believe you guys facing a problem in ur pendrive, hope this will help you.Thanks!!

1)Please make use of this site “http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/online_recovery_2.asp?LangNo=0″

All the instruction are present how to repair your pen drive.

2) Download tool JetFlash Recovery Online from “http://www.transcendusa.com/support/dlcenter/ORT_Software.asp?Link=OnLineRecovery.exe”,

If you guys have further question pls post ur question me here…i wil reply you.Thanks!!

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Satish Veer says, February 25th, 2010   

Sir

i change the Change Drive Letter and Paths & formate
solve my problem

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karthik says, March 1st, 2010   

sir
i’ve inserted the removable disk in the removable drive before starting my computer and also tried by changing the drive letters, but both are not working……. please give me another solution

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venu says, March 1st, 2010   

i changed the letter of my pendrive but it doesnt works at all.give me a solution

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dorji says, March 3rd, 2010   

i have problem with my pen drive.
when i insert into computer it is not detecting by computer and hwen i try to format it it is displaying message as please insert into disk drive.Any solution for this problem?

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bs pradeep says, March 6th, 2010   

Thank you very much Sarv_2k

It really works

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