Unlock pen drive at or college PC if it is blocked or disabled

Ever got angry on your college or because you can't use Pendrive and keep getting install the driver ,etc

The USB port can be disabled by 3 methods ,
1. By Disabling USB Ports from Device Manager.
2. By Twking Registry values for USB Mass Storage Devices.
3. By Un-installing the USB Mass Storage Drivers.





Don't worry in this post I will show you how to solve this problem , to perfom this method you should have Administrator Rights . To get the administrative rights rd the below post :




How-to-get-administrative-privileges

I assume you have administrator rights. Now let’s see how to fix all these situations one by one.

1) USB ports from device manager.

#1 Go to Start > Run, in run prompt type “devmgmt.msc” and press enter. This will open device manager.
#2 Go to Universal bus Controller.
#3 See if there are any red colored cross? If yes, right click and enable those USB Ports. Enable USB at Device manager

Now try and use the pen drive. If it works fine, then grt, else rd the next two .

2) Correcting Registry Value for USB Mass Storage device.
#1 Go to Start > Run , type “regedit” and press enter, this will open registry editor.
#2 Navigate to the H_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
#3 Double-click on the “Start” 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 mns the drivers are missing. Follow the 3rd below to solve the issue.

3) Installing USB Mass Storage Device drivers

In case the USB Mass Storage drivers are not installed, will prompt you to install the driver. In such a case, will launch Hardware Update Wizard. If you have USB Mass storage drivers, you can install it and restart the computer, it should work.

#1 In hardware update wizard, Select the option to install the driver from a specific loion and click next.
#2 Now on this screen, click browse and select the path on which you have un-zipped the drivers and press ok.



NOTE: may give you a warning that the drivers has not passed 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.