Showing posts with label USB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USB. Show all posts

1/25/2016

(Code 38) Windows error when attach a pendrive or USB external hard drive

Symptom: 
When you try to attach a pendrive or USB external hard drive, you get an error message: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)"
Windows doesn't recognize the pendrive or external HDD.

Solution:

Uninstall all USB devices from Device Manager, then reboot Windows and reinstall all USB device drivers (download the chipset driver from manufacturer support page and install it).

12/05/2014

How to create a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows 8.1

Requirements:

*USB Flash Drive (8GB will be perfect)
* Windows 8 or 8.1 DVD or ISO.


1. Save your data from pendrive...

2. Start a command prompt as an administrator:

Click Start.
In the Start Search box, type cmd, and then press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.
If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.

OR

Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
Right-click Command prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.

3. Write DISKPART, then Enter
(Click on pictures below.)




Then write LIST DISK and note USB flas drive's number (Disk number - eg. Disk 1) .




4. Now write the next commands (and hit Enter after every command)


SELECT DISK 1

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS 
(Formatting time of USB flash drive depends on its size.)



ASSIGN

EXIT





Don't close Command Prompt, we'll need it a bit later.

5. Place DVD to DVD-ROM or mount Windows 8.1 ISO.
Check drive letter for DVD or mounted ISO (my flash drive is for G:\, and mounted ISO is for H:\)

6. Back to Command Prompt and write these commands:
(First change drive to DVD or ISO:)

H: (DVD drive or ISO)

CD BOOT

BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 G:
 (USB flash drive letter)

boot

7. Copy all Windows 8.1 DVD, ISO files and folders onto USB flash drive.

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8. When copy finished we can use the bootable Windows 8.1 USB flash drive for install the new Windows 8.1 system.

Don't forget to set the right boot device to USB-HDD in BIOS.

Bios-hd-menu-1

Or choose it from boot menu:



11/24/2014

What file system is fit for USB drive?


What operating system read and write different file systems natively?


Windows XP
Windows 7/8/10/Vista
Mac OS Leopard
Mac OS X (10.6.5 and later)
Ubuntu Linux
NTFS(Windows)
Yes
Yes
Read Only
Read Only
Yes
FAT32 (DOS, Windows)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
exFAT (Windows)
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes,with ExFat packages
HFS+ (Mac OS)
No
Sorta (read-only with Bootcamp)
Yes
Yes
Yes
EXT2, 3, 4 (Linux)
No
Yes (with third-party software)
No
No
Yes


File and volume size limit
Individual File Size Limit
Single Volume Size Limit
NTFS
Greater than commercially available drives
Huge (16EB)
FAT32
Less than 4GB
Less than 8TB
exFAT
Greater than commercially available drives
Huge (64 ZB)
HFS+
Greater than commercially
available drives
Huge (8 EB)
EXT2, 3
16GB
Large (32 TB)
EXT4
1 EB
16 TB



Source, and read more: How-To Geek

6/24/2013

USB port error - Windows 7 / 8

Sometimes one or more USB port seems to be wrong in Windows 7.
First take a try with a LiveCD, so you can determine whether the operating system is good or not.
If it good, worth to make a full power off. Unplug the PC from the power outlet for 20-30 seconds, then plug in.
If the error still remains, probably the mainboard injured.