I have an eBay unbranded, budget smart phone, Model T3 with 8 gigs of internal memory, running Android 6 with a USB driver app installed connected to a Windows 7 Ultimate PC with a data cable (tried two different cables). USB debugging is connected. My phone will connect to the PC with the SD card as the default write disk.
On the phone I can configure the card to operate as USB storage or as Media device. When USB connection is "Media device" a window will appear on my PC desktop saying "Autoplay" and "Device Options". I can select "Open device to view files using "Windows Explorer". I can access the card and view its contents. However, and here is the problem, When the phone's SD card is connected as USB Storage, "Computer" window appears on PC desktop with "Hard Disk Drives" and "Devices With Removable Storage", "Removable Disk (Z", --my phone-- (it doesn't matter what drive letter I assign it). When I click on "Removable Disk (Z" a window appears on my PC which says, "Insert Disk", " Please insert a disk in Removable Disk (Z". I cannot access the SD card labeled Disk (Z so I can't transfer files between the PC and the phone.
I go into "Administrative Tools", "Computer Management", "Storage", "Disk Management" and the SD card is listed as "Disk 2", "Removable (Z, "No Media" but I can't do anything with it.
Does somebody have any idea how I can fix this so I can access the SD card from my PC as "USB storage"?
Sorry about all the emoticons. Unintentional. The end parenthesis created them.
On the phone I can configure the card to operate as USB storage or as Media device. When USB connection is "Media device" a window will appear on my PC desktop saying "Autoplay" and "Device Options". I can select "Open device to view files using "Windows Explorer". I can access the card and view its contents. However, and here is the problem, When the phone's SD card is connected as USB Storage, "Computer" window appears on PC desktop with "Hard Disk Drives" and "Devices With Removable Storage", "Removable Disk (Z", --my phone-- (it doesn't matter what drive letter I assign it). When I click on "Removable Disk (Z" a window appears on my PC which says, "Insert Disk", " Please insert a disk in Removable Disk (Z". I cannot access the SD card labeled Disk (Z so I can't transfer files between the PC and the phone.
I go into "Administrative Tools", "Computer Management", "Storage", "Disk Management" and the SD card is listed as "Disk 2", "Removable (Z, "No Media" but I can't do anything with it.
Does somebody have any idea how I can fix this so I can access the SD card from my PC as "USB storage"?
Sorry about all the emoticons. Unintentional. The end parenthesis created them.