Post by Cougs on Apr 22, 2022 22:05:07 GMT 10
USB drives freezing fix for 8 & 8.1
Locate the drive details in the Device Manager (usually under USB Mass Storage Device)
make a note of the 4 digits occurring after "VID_" and "PID_"
Then Go into the registry editor, to find Register editor type regedit on the Start screen and select the regedit option in the search results.
Now that you are in the Register editor, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbstor.
Right-click usbstor and make a key. The name must be VID and PID strings found previously. Leading zeros are important.
Then right-click the new key and create a DWORD entry named DeviceHackFlags.
Set the value to 400hexadecimal. Disconnect and reconnect the device.
This workaround should prevent Windows from switching off the troublesome device.
Locate the drive details in the Device Manager (usually under USB Mass Storage Device)
make a note of the 4 digits occurring after "VID_" and "PID_"
Then Go into the registry editor, to find Register editor type regedit on the Start screen and select the regedit option in the search results.
Now that you are in the Register editor, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\usbstor.
Right-click usbstor and make a key. The name must be VID and PID strings found previously. Leading zeros are important.
Then right-click the new key and create a DWORD entry named DeviceHackFlags.
Set the value to 400hexadecimal. Disconnect and reconnect the device.
This workaround should prevent Windows from switching off the troublesome device.
