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A removable disk, such as a USB flash drive, memory card or pen drive sometimes can't work on the Windows OS or Mac OS X, sending error messages that prevent users from utilizing the drive and accessing data. One of the common errors while using USB drive in Windows 10/8/7 is "Please insert a disk into removable disk G: (or any other drive letter)".
Usually, trying to format the problematic USB flash drive doesn't help bypass "please insert a disk into removable disk". As a computer savvy indicates that this could happen due to the default behavior of Windows when you may have the same drive assigned to a network drive or other hardware drive that tries to occupy the drive's drive letter. Follow below steps to repair devices with 'Please insert a disk into removable disk' error in Windows PC without losing any data now:
To fix the mentioned error on an SD card, flash drive or pen drive, follow the simple steps below.
Step 1. Open Disk Management by right-clicking in My Computer -> Manage -> Storage or just press Windows key + X and select Disk Management there.
Step 2. On the disk map, right-click on the removable drive partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Step 3. Change the drive letter to some other drive letter that has not been used, for example, X: or Z: etc.
Now go back to the USB drive with a new drive letter. Try to open the drive, and you should not see the error message again. However, most of the time, your data within the USB drive disappeared. Don't worry though, here's how you can find data back.
Download and install EaseUS hard drive recovery software on your Windows computer.
Step 1. Plug the USB flash drive into your computer.
Please do not use your USB flash drive once you lose or delete files on it. The sooner you take actions to restore lost data, the bigger chance you'll have to restore all of them.
Step 2. Run EaseUS data recovery software and scan flash drive.
Step 3. Check and preview found flash drive data.
You can double click to preview found files.
Step 4. Restore flash drive data.
After restoring data from storage devices, you can follow to format them and repair 'please insert a disk into removable disk' error in Windows 10/8/7 PC now:
By following the detailed troubleshooting guide for your problematic USB drive, pen drive, and memory card, you can use the drive again without any hassle. At the same time, saved lost data.