Solved usb drive disabled problem

There are more than one ways
in which the USB drives are
disabled by Administrators at
offices or colleges or schools.
These methods are:

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.

Lets go one by one for the
solution now.

UNLOCK USB PORTS FROM
DEVICE MANAGER:

i) Go to Start > Run, in run
prompt 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.

CORRECT REGISTRY VALUE FOR
USB MASS STORAGE DEVICE
i) Go to Start > Run , type
“regedit” and press enter, this will 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, it should
work fine, if it does not, then it
means the drivers are missing.
Follow the steps below to
solve the issue.

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 here. Download and uznip 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 un-zipped the
drivers and press ok.
NOTE: Windows may give you
a warning that the drivers has
not passed Windows logo
testing, so stop installation or
Continue anyway, Select
Continue anyway to complete installation.
Now restart your computer
and re-insert your pen drive, it
should now work.