[Q] MTP not mounting disk - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I just bought my Nexus 7 yesterday and tried connecting it to my Windows 7 laptop and not much happened. So then I read that it doesn't support UMS but uses MTP. Reading further I founds that this comes as part of Windows Media Player which usually un-install on all my PCs so I use System Restore to go back before I started and install Windows Media Player and and I get an error message, 'unrecogonized usb device'.
I then try it on another PC of mine on which I just installed Windows 8 Pro and it mounts straight away.
Any ideas on how to get it mount?

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Usb problem

Hello! (first post , have been reading for a while though)
I can't connect the phone to my PC (win7 64bit), not as a mass storage device or with Kies (it worked fine before with my home PC and an XP machine at work).
It stopped working after the PC said "Device drivers installed properly" (or something like that) when I connected it, after that I have'nt been able to make it work as mass storage device on any computer..
Very strange and very annoying!
I'm thinking I might factory reset the phone (would very anti-nice though to loose all apps and stuff), so I thought I'd ask here first if there are any possible solutions..
Thx!
if you open device manager in Win7 x64 do you see it listed as GT-I9000 in Portable Devices ?
that's what it shows in mine, and i'm on x64 Win7
it automatically opens in Mass Storage also works in Kies
WEE!! Got it to work just now!!
Rebooted the phone (as I do every day) and connected it to charge over night, and windows popped up with the "installing device driver blabla dialogue" and suddenly it works!?!
This after not working for at least a week on any computer...
I have no idea what might have caused it, but I'm just happy it works again
Still, very strange...
It shows up in the device manager now, it did'nt before.. Thx for the reply!
On Win XP
is there a certain driver i have to download before using USB Mass Storage option.
all i get are two removable drives icon. but they can't be opened
you should only have 1 removeable device icon, 2 if you have a micro SD card inserted.
if you configure the phone to ask you what to do with the usb during connection, then you can select Kies or Mass Storage
regardless both works fine
i do have two removable drives because of the addition of the sd card
its set on Mass Storage. but it still won't open. im not sure if Windows installed it properly though
the driver details:
driver files- system32\drivers\USBSTOR.sys
does it shows in device manager, as mentioned above ?
Ziostilon said:
i do have two removable drives because of the addition of the sd card
its set on Mass Storage. but it still won't open. im not sure if Windows installed it properly though
the driver details:
driver files- system32\drivers\USBSTOR.sys
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Ziostilon said:
i do have two removable drives because of the addition of the sd card
its set on Mass Storage. but it still won't open. im not sure if Windows installed it properly though
the driver details:
driver files- system32\drivers\USBSTOR.sys
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After connecting the phone via USB, did tell the phone to Mount the drives?
anyone else encountered this issue?
Is anyone else having trouble connecting their Galaxy to a PC? I don't know whether mine is faulty or not. Downloaded the Samsung Kies software but when I plug in the Galaxy Windows is unable to find a MTP USB device driver and the phone refuses to connect. This happens Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. Also the Galaxy has a complete fit and keeps flashing between the home screen and MTP application screen while it's connected (wxw.youtube.com/watch?v=R9hdpJPCP-k). And I don't get the usual Android option to mount for file transfer. Am I missing something?
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finally managed to fix tis stupid kies connection problem...if anyone encountering the same issue jus do a factory restore n format ur internal sd card

I dual booted with gag. When I run W8 it thinks its the C drive

This has probably been addressed but here goes....
I partitioned a drive for W8, called it drive P. Loaded W8 and ran it, worked nicely and wanted to go install gag. Once I installed gag I ran W8 again and it worked ok again. Then I wanted to use my W7 and tried to get to it, and for some reason I have to go through the Windows bootloader. Where you get a dos style screen and have to choose between W7 or W8 (keep in mind this is after you make your selection using gag), I choose W7. It got stuck on the loading screen (the one where it ways "windows 7" below the windows icon. Had to turn off my comp cause it wouldn't get past that screen.
Then I went into W8, which loaded fine and opened the disk management. It said that my main hard drive partition which has W7 and all of my files on it was completely empty and no longer named the "C" drive. Now my drive with W8 was called the "C" drive.
So I ran uninstalled/reinstalled GAG and somehow I got back to W7 with all of my files there.
But im afraid to run W8 again since I feel like W8 needs to run on the C drive, and im worried I might actually lose my real C drive.
Can someone explain what is going on with my comp, and a safe way to boot between the two OS'?
Its built into windows 8.
This is what I did.
Used disk management within windows 7 to shrink the partition its currently on. Shrunk it 50g.
Now you will have an unformatted partition. Use mini partition tool to format to ntfs. Also assign the partition a drive letter. I used W.
Now use magic disc to mount the windows 8 ISO to the virtual drive.
Don't run setup. Open the drive so you can see the contents of the ISO.
Now in the sources folder run the setup.exe, Not the one on the root of the ISO.
Setup will start. Install windows 8 to the partition you just made.
Let windows 8 complete setup and get all the way to the desktop or metro UI.
Restart your computer.
During the loading you will come across a screen that allows you to choose the OS. Now by default it times out at 5 seconds. At the bottom of the screen you'll see choose default OS and other settings. Click that within 5 seconds.
Change that to whatever you want. I changed mine to 30 seconds to give me enough time.
I had a similar issue when cloning my drive to an external to take with me using pwboot. Windows 8 would load fine but windows 7 wouldn't. But worked just fine on my internal drive. Mostly just use my external to use my old gateway with a broken internal hdd. Seriously hard to find an old school 2.5" IDE hdd. But windows 8 couldn't install my video card driver for s-video out so I stuck with just windows 7 on my external and never figured out the problem. Dual booting on my aspire one works like a champ though.
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[Q] No Drives Found on Windows 8 Install (SATA / IDE Mode))

I recently installed Windows 8 x86 M3 using Daemon Tools from inside Windows 7. So Far I am loving it, but it has a few glitches, and I cannot install all of my programs since some of them are only for x64. Obviously I cannot run the install from within an x86 environment. I used the Windows USB/DVD Tool to format and copy the install files to an 8gb usb flash drive. It boots fine and I begin the install. However I get an error when I reach the time to choose a hard disk to install to. No Drives Found! I click browse to select the drivers and in the browse menu all of my disk drives are listed...I can even navigate to my chipset driver folder. When I get to the proper folder the driver for the nvidia chipset pops up. I click install, and Windows begins to install the drivers. After a few seconds it completes and then gives me the same error...No Drives Found!
I currently have my 2 SATA drives in IDE Mode. This is because I do not want to set up a RAID Array for fear of losing all the data on both drives. So I assumed in IDE Mode Windows shouldnt need a RAID driver.
Does anyone have any ideas to help me out with this? I was thinking windows 7 portable x64, but that requires a 16gb Flash drive...so I read. Maybe XP portable x64? Or just any clue how to get my drives detected?
what happens to me himself and tried everything copy the drivers on a CD but nothing
so to fix this i am considering switching to raid. i am goint to copy all of my data to my 1tb hdd. then add my 2tb hdd to the raid array by itself. my question is can i mount the 1tb sata hdd, not in the raid array, to copy the data to the new raid array before converting the 1tb hdd to raid? or can this only be done with usb or in linux?
i had this problem and it turned out to be a buggered download of the ISO, re downloaded it and it worked fine.
cant promise it will work for you but im chuffed with it now and thats the only thing i did
Sorry if I miss understand you, but are you trying to install 32bit Windows 8 on an 64x Machine? And the Disk Image is a 32bit Version?
Try Downloading the 64bit Developer Preview from Microsoft. Then use the Windows 7 USB Download tool and create a install drive from the ISO file. Reboot and it should work. I've run into this before an it's usually when I use a DVD.
I'd link you to the ISO's and USB tool but I'm a new user :C

MTP on XP?

Hi all...I have ICS nightly running from the SD card on my Nook Color.
I would like to connect it to my media server PC (running XP) and transfer some media files, however, when I connect it, the PC attempts to install the MTP drivers and then says it did not find them and could not install. Then it tries to install Nook Color and fails as well. The end result is that the Nook does not show up, as a device or as individual drives.
The XP machine does have Win Media Player 11 on it, and it will see the Nook without the ICS SD card.
Any ideas on how to connect and transfer files? I know about the wireless functions, I'd just like to be able to connect via usb...it seems much faster.
disable usb debugging to get mtp to work on winxp
i stumbled across this the other day
I used Multi-Mount SD Card on CM7 with great success. Have not tried it on CM9 yet.
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SD card won't mount completely in Win 7.

When I connect my Nexus 4 in Win 7. It shows as a media device. It does not seem to be mounting all of the storage. It doesn't seem to be mounting the entire sdcard. I can't see nandroid backups/folders that are visible in CWM. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Starting with Ice Cream Sandwich, Android started using Media Transport Protocol (MTP) for USB file transfers. In Windows 7, I have found MTP to be shaky and unreliable. Try clicking refresh in Windows Explorer; maybe that will fix the issues with Clockwork Mod backups not displaying. Windows might be trying to cache file listings.
If that does not work, you can use WiFi file transfers such as AirDroid, SSHDroid, or SwiFTP. They are slower, but they work.
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