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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.
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
4. Now, click Disk Management
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 )
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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Didn’t help at all. Same problem.
Having same problem with usb stick. Change letter didn’t help.
OK, But what if the pendrive is shown as distk1 in “Disk Management”, it also has a drive letter that has not been reserved, it is shown as “no media” and I can’t see any partition. Please guide. Has the chip been corrupted.
It seems that previous comments have to be checked on the section PREVIOUS COMMENTS and that will confuse the users. For all the new users on board check the description supplied by Girish before in PREVIOUS COMMENTS to solve your problems.
I tried the methods described above, but they didn’t work for me.
However, I have a program Lexar Image Rescue 3 that can read the files. Unfortunately, when they wrote that program, they only thought of rescuing image files.
So, if Lexar Image Rescue can read those files, other competent USB drive readers should be able to do that too. The question is, who else produces tools like Lexar Image Rescue 3 that rescue all files.
Hi There,
It didnt work for me either. The problem started while trying to format my laptop. I also tried by format via external hard disk but doesnt work. Actually, its worst. I have 2 versions of XP as I couldnt format my hard disk. The OS is telling me that I cannot delete the partition and that I need to put the cd but my big problem is that the disk drive is not working…
Please help urgent.. I need to finish this before saturday.
Many Thanks,
Hasvine
try this solution – http://www.technixupdate.com/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-with-xp-recovery-console-with-usb-recovery-console/
Check previous comments. They were visible all before but now they are splitted so it seems that people can find the history of the whole conversation before.
For pending problem as I said before, check up the Sarv_2k post above. Pasting his post below for those who missed it:
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!!
my pen drive is not working pen while using please insert disk appear
guys i have 8gb hp pen drive.. its that new single stick thing.. neways i am having this problem for past three days now and after trying every single thing that you guys mentioned above I give up.. the problem is still persisting.. is there any other way that i can this device back to working condition….???? please help me out… i am saying again a have tried every option the jetflash recovery tool from transcend does not even recognize my device… so pls help me out…
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