Software Tricks, Tips and Hacking

No drive letter assigned to a removable disk or pen drive

Use of pen drives for data transfer are in the tradition these days but so are the many problems related with these pen drives. And one  of the problem is non-recognition of the removable disk drive though the symbol appears in status bar. This problem is generally occurred when windows fails to assign a drive letter to the removable disk inserted for the first time.
But the good part is this can be fixed using very simple steps using the disk management system follow these steps and most likely you would come up with a solution:

1. Open Run, type “compmgmt.msc” and hit enter.
2. Now click “Disk Management” on the left side.
3. On the right side, right click on your USB Drive that appears in the disk management window and click change drive letter and paths.
4. Assign a new drive letter to the USB Drive which is not assigned to any other drive.
5. Now the Pen Drive will get displayed in My Computer.

Hope the above fix will work for you.

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