If after connecting a removable drive, USB flash drive or USB flash drive, you get an “Insert Disk” message in the “Removable Disk” message in Windows 10/8/7, the following will help solve the problem. Although reinstalling the USB flash drive sometimes solves the problem, if that doesn’t help, you can try the following possible solutions.
Change the letter of the incompatible USB key
It is likely that changing the drive letter can fix this error. This problem usually occurs when there is an incompatibility between the USB key and the drive’s partition letter http://windowsbulletin.com/windows-10-error-please-insert-disk-removable-disk/.
For example, one of the partition names of the laptop / PC is D and the USB drive name is also D.
So let’s change that!
Right-click “Start” and select “Disk Management” from the list. Right click on the USB drive. Now click the “Change Drive Letter and Path” tab. Rename the drive letter to a drive letter that is not already on your computer.
Then restart your computer and check if the “Insert drive into removable drive” error has disappeared.
Run CHKDSK
CHKDSK is great at fixing disk errors, including the “Insert disk into USB drive” error. However, this process breaks all recoverable data into 512 KB blocks. So be careful with your data and recover the data first using the previous method. After that, you have nothing else to worry about.
So, right-click on the hard drive and select “Properties” from the list, then “Tools”. Now click on the “Browse” tab. Wait for the process to complete and restart your computer.
You can also use CHKDSK from the command line.
Update the USB hub drivers
If you haven’t updated your drivers in a long time, chances are that your current USB hub driver is interfering with the current version of Windows 10. In this case, the obvious solution is to update your USB hub driver. Here’s how it works:
- Go to Search, type devicemngr and open Device Manager.
- Expand Universal Serial Bus Controllers
- Right-click the root USB hub and go to “Update Driver”.
- Allow the wizard to find new updates (if any) and complete the installation.
- Reboot your computer.
Format the USB drive
- Connect the USB drive to your computer, right-click My Computer or This Computer, and select Manage.
- Go to Disk Management
- Right-click on the USB drive and select Format.
- Enter a new name for the USB drive in the volume name and use the correct file system. Then click OK.
Use Diskpart
- In the search box of the Start menu, type cmd as the command prompt.
- Right-click the command prompt and select Run as administrator. In the command prompt window, type the following tokens and press Enter after each command:
- diskpart
- list disk
- select disk X (x is the drive number assigned to your USB drive)
- clean
- create partition primary
- active
- Select partition 1
- format fs=fat32
Insert a floppy disk into the removable disk. This happens not only on the USB stick, but also when you use an SD card or an external hard drive. However, we hope that the above solutions will help you solve your problems.