Unblock Blocked Pen drive in School, College or Office!

Hello frnds, today i am going to tell you the solution of a very common problem which we observe at many places when we need some data on our pen drive but the USB drive/pen drive does not work and Windows gives a notification


“Found new hardware, USB Mass Storage Device, please install drivers for it.”


Windows then shows a New Hardware Wizard to install the drivers.


Lets see in details how we can fix this problem.


Tip to fix this problem:
There are some of the methods by which the system administrators disables the working of the USB drive/pen drive.


1. By Disabling USB Ports from Device Manager.
2. By Tweaking Registry values for USB Mass Storage Devices.
3. By Un-installing the USB Mass Storage Drivers.


I will now tell you the one by one procedure to handle these problems. But remember, before doing any modification, you must have the administrator rights on your computer.


Procedure 1.


Unlock USB ports from device manager:


i) Go to Start > Run, in run, type “devmgmt.msc” and press enter. This will open device manager.
ii) Go to Universal Serial bus Controller. See if there are any red colored cross? If yes, right click and enable those USB Ports.


Now try and use the pen drive. If it works fine, then great, else read the next two steps also.


Procedure 2.


Correct Registry Value for USB Mass Storage device


i) Go to Start > Run , type “regedit” and press enter to open registry editor.
ii) Navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
iii) Double-click on the “Start” key to modify its value, change the value to 3 and press OK.


Now remove and connect the pen drive again, if it works fine, great but if it does not, then it means the drivers are missing. Follow the steps below to solve this issue.


Procedure 3.


Install USB Mass Storage Device drivers


In case the USB Mass Storage drivers are not installed, windows will prompt you to install the driver. In such a case, windows will launch Hardware Update Wizard. If you have USB Mass storage drivers, you can install it and restart the computer, it should work. If not, you can download the USB Mass Storage drivers free by searching on the google and Download the driver files on your desktop-


i) In hardware update wizard, Select the option to install the driver from a specific location and click next.


ii) Now on this screen, click browse and select the path on which you have to install the drivers and press ok.


Now restart your computer and re-insert your pen drive, it should now work.

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