Access a USB flash on an ESXi host drive

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• 4 error code when a client system tries to access a USB flash drive

  I recently installed Windows XP in a guest operating system, using Workstation 6.5.5, but I am not able to connect a USB device to the host (8-64-bit Windows) system.   I have another desktop computer with a 64 bit Vista host and a Vista 32 bit comment system where it has never been a problem.  There must be a setting that I can't find which would allow this simple task off a flash of the host drive and its connection to the host. Under settings, I allowed to recognize all USB devices.

  Gordon

  Houston, Texas

  If the host system's USB 3.0 so as a workaround you may need to buffer the USB device between the host and he with a Hub USB 2.0, then the comments of Windows before Windows 8 OS should be able to access the device.

• the guest account can access encrypted USB flash drive?

  So here's the scenario

  I encrypted an external usb flash drive.  If I have access to this USB key, enter my password, decrypt the USB key. then close the session,

  and go to access as a guest (ALWAYS logged IN MY ACCOUNT) so that the family can use my computer,

  What happens to someone else, they can access the flash drive which has been deciphered from my account?

  should not the external drive is accessible to the account, that it has been deciphered?

  Once the drive is mounted (enabling access through decryption as well) is accessible to all users.

• Difficulty accessing FAT32 USB flash drives

  I can't access my usb on my PC flash drives, which are formatted FAT32. NTFS works very well. When I try to open the drive FAT32, windows asks me to format it. I have no problems to open on my laptop. I tried formatting in FAT32, which translates the format error and incomplete. I tried to remove the USB drivers. I tried everything in disk management, such as the assignment of a letter... Tried a registry clean with few tools. Nothing.

  Really can not find the problem...

  "Shakalios" wrote in message News: * e-mail address is removed from the privacy *...

  I can't access my usb on my PC flash drives, which are formatted FAT32. NTFS works very well. When I try to open the drive FAT32, windows asks me to format it. I have no problems to open on my laptop. I tried formatting in FAT32, which translates the format error and incomplete. I tried to remove the USB drivers. I tried everything in disk management, such as the assignment of a letter... Tried a registry clean with few tools. Nothing.

  Really can not find the problem...

  Unless readers should be hung for Windows ME/98/95 of the Commission, there is little interest in formatting in FAT32
  
  --

  Mike Hall
  http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

  Mike Hall MVP - Windows Desktop Experience http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

• Cannot access a USB flash drive (' f: removable drive ")

  I can't access the USB drive (removable F :) drive.  When I open 'My computer' drive F: is not even.  How to fix this?  (I have Vista. Yes, the disc is fine.)

  Hello

  You meet other USB problems on this system. The drive works on the other
  computers?

  Check with the help of the player.

  This can help regardless of the brand:

  Cruzer not recognized by the PC
  http://KB.SanDisk.com/app/answers/detail/A_ID/10/kW/Cruzer/r_id/101834

  ===========================================================

  Other troubleshooting methods:

  1 reboot to be sure nothing blocks the ports.

  Follow these steps to remove corruption and missing/damaged file system repair or replacement.

  Start - type in the search box - find command top - RIGHT CLICK – RUN AS ADMIN

  sfc/scannow

  How to fix the system files of Windows 7 with the System File Checker
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/1538-SFC-SCANNOW-Command-System-File-Checker.html

  Then run checkdisk (chkdsk).

  How to run check disk in Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html

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  Then lets refresh the USB stack

  Control Panel - Device Manager - click in the box of white/white - VIEW - show hidden devices

  Look everywhere EXCEPT USB controllers for your device and if find you them (maybe
  plus_d' one of each) under disk drives, you can have several - right CLICK and UNINSTALL
  for all instances

  Control Panel right CLICK on EVERYTHING - Serial USB controllers - device configuration-manager and
  UNINSTALL all but the category itself - REBOOT - it refreshes the drive and battery USB

  This KB shows XP how to and the method of Vista is identical
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310575

  This is a utility to help you, but do 1 above.

  USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices currently connected to your
  computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. Run Options and check
  the 1st three choices to see if there are here. Try to remove all instances and restart
  then connect the player.
  http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/usb_devices_view.html

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  If necessary try these two:

  Tips for solving problems of USB devices - and a Mr Fixit
  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/c39bd203-f729-47a4-8351-83291e13c8a81033.mspx#EGB

  Hardware devices not detected or not working - Mr. Fixit
  http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/hardware_device_problems

  I hope this helps.

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• Updating ESX 3i 5 - how add/detect a USB external storage on the host drive

  I guess that this has been asked several times in the past, but I can't seem to get this to work for me.  All I want to do is use this USB external drive to back up files hard find in my volume of "datastore1".  I would like to implement a script, or even do it manually, where I tell you about my ESXi host just copy the files in VMFS volume in the external USB storage drive.

  My physical server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950, and it uses ESX 3i update 5.  I use a 250 GB Maxtor One Touch II USB external storage device, and it has been formatted with NTFS.

  Currently, I don't even know the controls able to detect this USB device.   I read only so that my drive to be recognized by the host, it must be ext3 or FAT32.  NTFS would be 'read only '.  I was hoping I could format the external drive through the ESXi (by command line), but maybe I'm deceiving myself.

  Thanks in advance

  I'm sorry to say that you are trying is not possible - external USB are not usable by ESXi or ESX =

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• Password reset disk only describes the use of floppy drive A (and they are obsolete). Password reset disk cannot be a CD-DVD, I can use a USB flash instead of the floppy drive?

  I wanted to create a RESET DISK of PASSWORD, but NOOOOO - my machine has a FLOPPY DRIVE. No product only the CD/DVD PLAYERS and one cannot change the a drive to a different letter designation.

  If you really NEED to do this, you are up the proverbial Creek, apparently.  Hard to believe!   How long has he given now that ANYONE used FLOPPEIES (small square disks)?  Certainly, we are asked not to believe that nobody is realized for this oversight!  I TRIED a CD/DVD - no dice.  My machine has 2 CD/DVD players, a Terrabyte Mobile with a slot drive.  My spouse has built this machine, and it is ensured that there are enough USB connectors that I could plant some tulips!  (It's photography & video editing - retirees have a busy life, that pays well.)  There are sites for readers of any persuasion EXCEPT the 1998 'PLACE floppy DISKS'.  Also, as with most machines, I do not want to return and crush things that my husband has a loading on the drives and call other than the names they bear within the network as things go well, otherwise.  We can't decide to call H Drive (CD/DVD drive), drive A, to say, just for the sake of my need to create a password reset disk.  My machine does not allow me to do things on the "fly".  I have to create a NEW one (and download something from those that already exist).  A ray of light shines through the same mess!  I think that maybe I can use a "USB key"?  Does not have a CD rom, but just explore, I ran across the words using a player instead of 'A' USB flash drive.  Hoping that USB key or "memory stick" is acceptable!

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  Hi Janice,.

  If you are using Vista, please see the following: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/create-a-vista-password-reset-disk-using-a-usb-flash-drive/547.

  If using Windows 7, please see the following: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/use-a-usb-flash-drive-to-create-windows-password-reset-disk-in-windows-7/4142?tag=rbxccnbtr1.

  From what I read, it seems quite simple and easy in both cases.  And not worry about drive letters - it will take whatever drive letter you choose (or who has been assigned to the flash player).

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck!

• Satellite L20-100 cannot access a USB Flash drive

  I recently bought Toshiba Satellite L20-100
  I installed a USB in Kingston datatraveler flash drive and windows recognized it without problem.
  but when I open my computer there is no icon for the reader (it works on another computer well).
  the drive is recognized in Device Manager, but it is not given a drive letter.
  When I open disk management and try to give it a drive letter it still does not show on my computer even after a reboot.

  Although I can access the disk management flash drive and can open, copy & paste the files & to her.
  same problem happened with a card reader.
  other USB devices like cable modem & mouse work well

  What is the solution

  Hello

  Is it possible that the USB is not formatted? Try changing the file system on the USB key.
  You can also try to change the drive letter because the letter assigned automatically sometimes gives some conflicts with other readers.

  Second possibility:
  You can try to clean all the USB stored device settings and let Windows refresh their.

  Create a file with Notepad containing the following lines and save it as a BOOKMARK. REG
  -cut after this line-
  REGEDIT4

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Environment]

  "DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES" = "1".
  -cut before this line-

  Double click on FIX. REG and say yes to the merge into registry question.

  Unplug ALL USB device.
  Open the Device Manager.
  View, show hidden devices.
  Uninstall all devices under USB controllers.
  Uninstall all devices in hard drives that you know are not present.
  Uninstall all devices in storage Volumes. Say no to all reboot prompts until you are finished.
  In addition, if a storage Volume doesn't uninstall, ignore her and move on to the next.
  If you have a yellow? with unknown devices, uninstall all of the entries there as well.

• Unidad USB connect a remote ESXi host para copy ahi una VM

  Hola Comunidad!

  Host of I have an ESXi 4.1 con several VM running pero Necesito UN liberar espacio y tengo una VM 1.5 to Quebec City are no utilizo pero no quiero eliminarla sin mas.

  Como el host are remote y the VM are huge, no puedo descargarla por internet y he pensado en un disco para copiarla pero ahi 2 TB USB conectarla no se if the host the reconocera that comandos debo emplear or el sistema archivos than debe tener said disco.

  If pudieran help me, would be very grateful.

  A cordial saludo,

  Alvaro.

  You must connect el of esta donde el en USB host ESXi VM for the con sistema archivo NTFS y luego desde vSphere Client editas VM y mallards a USB controller y luego peripheral USB.

  Editor captured.

  A greeting.

• Satellite L675 - 11 H - cannot access and/or played on USB flash drive files

  Hi all

  I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite L675 - 11H and tried to transfer files from a USB Pendrive on my hard drive from Toshiba. The files were already transferred from my old laptop (HP - XP) on my USB flash drive.

  Unable to access the USB flash drive to any of the USB ports that I connect my new laptop flash drive. What could be the problem here? Thank you for your help or tips!

  Hey Rush,

  Can you post more detailes about this behavior? What happens if you connect your laptop HARD drive, you don't see that Windows installs the drivers for the new USB device or do you have an error message? If you have connected the USB check of Windows disk management if she s recognized there (Control Panel > system and security > administrative tools).

  Have you tried other USB devices such as USB mice? If they don t work too the problem might be connected to the USB ports. In this case, you must delete all the USB ports on the Device Manager and restart your laptop. Also the chipset driver update might help.

• buy Windows 7 on usb flash

  I just want to know where I can buy Windows 7 on a usb flash key because my CD drive does not work so I need on a ubs key

  Windows 7 is not available on a USB, but you can create your own if you have a. ISO file.

  See the instructions how to get ISO media or create your own:

  How to: What are my options for Windows 7 reinstall media?

  Once you have it, see instructions below to create a bootable copy:

  The first option:

  After getting the file .iso that you use it Microsoft .iso to USB/DVD tool to create a bootable DVD or USB (requires a blank DVD or USB flash to at least 4 GB key).

  

  For UEFI systems based

  If your computer is UEFI, they are normally the systems that come pre-loaded with Windows 8 or later, you need prepare the ISO for such a configuration file or you will receive an error during installation. The USB key must be formatted in FAT32 and use the GPT partitioning scheme. To do this, you must use Rufus, a small tool that you can download for free.

  

  Rufus - credit: Pete bastard/Akeo

  After installing Rufus:

  • Launch it
  • Select the ISO Image
  • Point to the file ISO for Windows 10
  • Check create a disk bootable using
  • Select GPT partitioning to EUFI firmware as the Partition scheme
  • Choose FAT32 NOT NTFS as file system
  • Make sure that your USB in the device list
  • Click Start
  • Close when you are finished

• creation of recovery on USB flash drive image occupy space drive (C).

  Hi friends, I have a computer hp laptop with window 8 preinstalled. Today, I created a USB stick 32 GB recovery image. In the image of disk recovery pen occupy about 21 GB, but the strange thing is that this process also occupy my equal to 21 GB of disk space (C). Before creating recovery USB key image, my free memory from the disk (C) was 60 GB free but after creating it, drive (C) reduced to 40 GB memory. Is this normal or has done, I made a mistake. If it is not normal that how I can release these 20 and 21 GB on my drive (C).

  Process that I followed to create recovery image- as indicated by the hp guide
  HP Recovery Manager > under the heading- (I liked to take the measure of security), I chose "recovery media creation
  and follow the instructions on the screen... and successfully created the recovery USB Flash key. But my drive (C) breaks down. I don't understand why this is happening because I provided the window 8 with 32 GB USB key to create the recovery image then why there are also equal space on drive (C).
  Please help me friends how free up my space of 21 GB drive (C).       Thank you...

  Hi John, first of all thanks for reading my problem and give me the solution. I created the recovery hp by using hp recovery manager disk, but now my problem is sloved. Here's how. Searching on the net about my problem, I get a link to my solutions. Multiple method received there but my problem get solved by the first method only. There, he is responsible for download Piriform CCleaner, install the same. Restart the computer. Open the ccleaner > there you will get the "Run cleaner" option and follow the instructions of onscrenn. And everything about the reader is done.

  THANKS to PIRIFORM Ccleaner.

• ESXi 4.1 installed on a life issue, USB flash drive

  Hello

  I just installed a new server ESXi 4.1 on a (internal port) USB flash drive. I heard these flash drives USB gets used a lot of Scriptures; I do pay attention on the ESXi host to maximize the life of the USB? Maybe switch logs in a data store, if possible?

  Someone at - it information on how long will last my with ESXi USB flash drive?

  Thanks in advance!

  ... what I do pay attention on the ESXi host to maximize the life of the USB? Maybe switch logs in a data store, if possible?

  VMware optimizes access R/W if you install ESXi on a flash or SD drive. If I'm not mistaken, some changes are written only once in an hour. Depending on the size of the flash player, you can configure the location of the scratch partition (which is used for discharges of support etc.) to be on one of your data warehouses (HARD drive)

  Someone at - it information on how long will last my with ESXi USB flash drive?

  This depends mainly on the quality of the drive itself. Some providers (like Dell) offer models of server with two type of a RAID1 SD cards.

  André

• How to recover from the failure of a with ESXi USB flash drive?

  I have ESXi 5.5 running on a 16 GB USB flash drive.  The system itself has a RAID card and drives mirrored where all virtual machines are stored, so it seems to me that a critical point of weakness is the drive itself.  If die ESXi itself running flash player, is there a procedure to recover the virtual machines on the disks?  Or should I keep a backup of my drive as well?

  1. How to restore the operating system assuming that the flash drive fails? If I reinstalled ESXi on a new drive of the same thumb, would see the VMware VMs existing on the hard drives of the server? Or is the process of discovery of the relatively painless existing virtual machines?

  If your flash drive goes down, will not be a problem that you have your virtual machines without danger on the separate data store in the locally attached storage drives. all you got to do is to reinstall ESXi host, he will be happy to see the existing VMFS data store and browse this data store where are stored the re-save you and virtual machines in the inventory.

  See also changes following KB to make the backup of your ESXi as operating system configuration and when you change the configuration at the time of the failure of ESXi, you don't have to worry about re-configuarting it

  VMware KB: Backup and restore configuration using the vSphere command-line Interface and vSphere PowerCLI ESXi

  1. How can I maintain redundancy for my USB failure? Can I have two drives connected and automatically backup flash / mirror the first hard drive to the second?

  This is not possible (I never tried myself) If you use an external flash drive, but let's say that you have any material to the specific provider giving this feature as

  DELL IDSDM http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-idsdm-whitepaper-en.pdf

  or another supplier giving a similar feature, then it is quite possible to mirror. Otherwise, the best option is take config. backup using KB, I mentioned in the first answer.

• Configure Passthrough in ESXi host for USB Dongle?

  Hello

  You have to connect a USB dongle to a virtual machine specific.

  On the web, we find that we can plug the dongle to 5 ESXi host.  For this particular virtual machine, add USB controller and then add the USB device.

  We wonder if we were to "Configure Passthrough" in "Advanced settings" of the ESXi host?  If so, is there an easy way for us to identify the particular USB port used?

  Thank you

  Post edited by: TonyJK

  Hello

  If you want to only connect the USB dongle to a virtual machine, add a USB controller to the virtual computer is simpler. Once you have added a USB controller, turn on the virtual machine. Plug the dongle on the ESXi host. Open the page change the setting of this virtual machine, add a USB device and you should be able to find the dongle in the list. Save the settings and your virtual machine can now access the dongle.

  Martin