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I knew that kind of information would be recorded in Windows 10's Event logs, and after some investigation with Event Viewer, I found out where. Further investigation and experimentation led me to the Event IDs that correspond to the connection and disconnection operations. And of course, each of these operations had a date and time stamp. I then found out how to identify specific USB flash drives, which allowed me to determine how long a specific USB flash drive was connected to a system.

In this article I'll explain in more detail what I found. I'll then show you how to employ these techniques to use Event Viewer to track USB flash drive usage on a system.

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Getting started

There are several ways to launch Event Viewer. One of the easiest ways is to click the Start button and begin typing Event Viewer. When Event Viewer appears in the Results pane, just click it. As soon as the tool launches, you'll see the Overview And Summary panel, as shown in Figure A, which displays a list of the most recent events collected from all the logs.

Figure A

The Overview And Summary panel displays a list of the most recent events.

Event Viewer will keep track of USB flash drive related events in the

log. However this log is not enabled by default. As such, you need to enable it first by drilling down to DriverFrameworks-UserMode, right-clicking on the Operational Log, and then selecting Properties from the context menu. When the Log Properties - Operational dialog appears, select the Enable Logging check box, as shown in Figure B.

Figure B

You must enable the Operational Log before Event Viewer will start capturing USB flash drive related events.

Tracking a USB flash drive connection

When you connect a USB flash drive to your system, a number of Information and Verbose Level event records are generated in the Operational Log. These records will consist of the following Event IDs:

• 2003
• 2004
• 2006
• 2010
• 2100
• 2101
• 2105
• 2106

For example, when I connected a USB flash drive to my system, Event Viewer displayed those event records in the Operational Log, as shown in Figure C.

Figure C

When you connect a USB flash drive to your system, a number event records are generated in the Operational Log.

As you can see, the first couple of event records pertain to loading drivers for the particular USB flash drive. The rest of the records pertain to the pnp (Plug-and-Play) or Power Management operations that get the drive ready to go to work in Windows 10. You'll also see that each event record has the same Date And Time stamp that corresponds to the instant that the USB flash drive was connected to the system.

The majority of these records contain a coded name for the device that will help you identify the device in a generic way. However, each device's unique serial number is also included in the majority of these records, which will allow you to identify specific USB flash drives.

As you might have guessed, by combining the date and time stamp with the device's unique serial number, you can find out exactly when a particular device was connected to the system. Pretty good so far, right?

However, connecting the USB flash drive generated 16 event records. Fortunately, all the records are generated at the same time, and the majority of the event records contain the unique serial number. Therefore, you need to investigate only one record to get what you need.

When a USB flash drive is connected, the first recorded event record is Event ID 2003. So by noting the date and time stamp assigned to an Event ID 2003 record, you can tell exactly when a USB flash drive was connected to the system. If you then open the Event ID 2003 record, as shown in Figure D, you can find all the information you need.

Figure D

Opening the Event ID 2003 record will provide the necessary information.

The General tab of the Event 2003 properties dialog displays all the pertinent information. To make it easier to see the individual pieces of this information, I've applied a highlighter to the screen shot:

• The green highlight shows the coded name for the device: USBSTOR#DISK indicates that this is a USB flash drive, and VEN_SANDISK&PROD_ULTRA tells us that this is a Sandisk Ultra 3.0 USB flash drive.
• The yellow highlight shows where in the string you can find the device's unique serial number.
• The orange highlight shows the date and time that the USB flash drive was connected to the system.

Tracking a USB flash drive disconnection

When you eject or disconnect a USB device, a couple of Information Level event records are generated in the Operational Log:

• 2100
• 2102

These events records also contain a date and time stamp along with the device's unique serial number. Even though there are multiple Event ID 2102 event records for a disconnection, the Event ID is unique to a disconnect. As such, by investigating the Event ID 2102 event record, you can find out exactly when a particular device was disconnected from the system. When you open an Event ID 2102 record, as shown in Figure E, you can find all the information that you need.

Figure E

Opening the Event ID 2102 record will provide you with all the information that you need.

On the General tab of the Event 20102 properties dialog, you can find all the pertinent information. To make it easier to see the individual pieces of pertinent information, I've applied a highlighter to the screen shot.

• The green highlight shows the coded name for the device: USBSTOR#DISK indicates that this is a USB flash drive and VEN_SANDISK&PROD_ULTRA tells us that this is a Sandisk Ultra 3.0 USB flash drive.
• The yellow highlight shows you where in the string that you can find the device's unique serial number.
• The orange highlight shows the date and time when the USB flash drive was connected to the system.

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Creating a Custom View

As you can imagine, over time connecting and disconnecting multiple USB flash drivers, the Operation Log will contain a lot of records. To make it easier to track down Event ID 2003 and Event ID 2102 event records in the Operational Log, you can create a Custom View.

To do so, make sure that the Operational Log is showing in Event Viewer, then pull down the Action menu and select the Create Custom View command. When you see the Create Custom View dialog, all you have to do is select the Information check box in the Event Level section and type 2003 and 2102 in the Includes/Excludes Event IDs box, as shown in Figure F.

Figure F

Creating a Custom View will make it easier to track connect and disconnect events.

After you configure your Custom View, click OK. You'll then see the Save Filter To Custom View dialog box. At this point, simply enter a name, as shown in Figure G, and click OK.

Figure G

When you click OK, you'll see the Save Filter To Custom View dialog box.

Now, to access your Custom View, just select it from the Custom Views tree. The USB Flash Drive Connect-Disconnect Tracker view displays only the event records you need monitor USB flash drives, as shown in Figure H.

Figure H

Using a Custom View narrows down the number of event records in the Operational Log.

To make this Custom View even easier to use, pull down the View menu and select the Group By > Event ID command. When you do so, you'll be able to more easily identify connect and disconnect events, as shown in Figure I.

Figure I

The Group By command provides an even better way to identify the types of event records in the Operational Log.

Putting it all together

By finding the same unique USB flash drive serial number in corresponding Event ID 2003 and Event ID 2102 event records and then applying some math to the date and time stamp numbers, you can tell exactly how long a particular USB flash drive was connected to your system.

Caveats

While the Operational Log shows USB flash drive connect and disconnect events, that's not the only USB device information this log displays. It may show event records for other USB devices as well. So just be aware of that as you look through the event records.

If you find an Event ID 2003 event record for a specific USB flash drive but don't find a corresponding Event ID 2102 event record, that either means that the USB flash drive is still attached to the system or the system was shut down before the device was removed. The latter makes tracking a disconnect event a bit more tricky, but not impossible. You can investigate recent shutdowns as a means of determining when a USB flash drive was disconnected. You can track recent shutdowns by creating a Custom View and specifying Windows > System as the Event log, User32 as the Event source, and 1074 as the Event ID.

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The users, who have upgraded from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, can grab the ISO from Microsoft’s store by using Windows 10 media creation tool (download URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 ). This tool lets you download a fresh copy of Windows 10 ISO that is very much needed for a clean install in the future any time. Why does clean install of Windows 10 necessary? Microsoft provides free up-gradation only for one year from the release date of Windows 10. If you have no recovery disk, you need a clean installation if any system damage occurs.

You can create a bootable USB of Windows 10 directly from ‘Media creation tool’. For this, just select ‘USB flash drive’ as your preferred media when you are asked to choose which media to use. Yet, I prefer creating ISO image because I can use it for a long time.

The size of Windows 10 is near about 3.5 GB. So, generally it takes a long time to download Microsoft Windows 10 directly to a USB thumb drive and depending upon the internet speed, the time of entire downloading process may vary. Note that, you need a flash drive of minimum 4gb size. After successfully downloading Windows 10 to a USB flash drive, you are ready for clean installation of Windows 10 to any new computer/PC. You just need the valid and genuine product activation key to successfully activate the fresh installation. In the later part of this topic, I discuss about how to create a bootable USB drive from a downloaded iso. Now, let’s see the installation procedure of Windows 10 direct from the USB, you have just prepared.

Create a Windows 10 USB Flash Drive and Guide to Install Windows 10 Using a USB Device

1. Create a bootable USB drive of Windows 10. See the above instructions to create the USB.
2. Insert the USB to your PC and restart it. To boot from CD, you need to re-arrange the boot device priority sequence to your BIOS. To enter BIOS setting, press Esc/F12/Del key and re-order the boot device.
3. Then, Windows 10 installation wizard appears and you will be asked for Windows 10 product key. If you have the valid product key, you can use the key. Otherwise, skip the step and forward.
4. Then, accept Microsoft’s software license agreement and then choose what type of agreement do you want – upgrade or install Windows 10 only.
5. Now, you will see a list of available partitions. Select one of the available primary partition and continue the installation. During the total installation process, your PC will restart 2-3 times. Whenever, you will be asked for entering the product key, just bypass it by pressing “do this later” option.
6. At last, choose your Windows account preference and you will arrive at the desktop window of Windows 10 OS. That’s it.

By following the above steps, you can install Windows 10 from a USB drive without using any third-party software and for this you do not require any ISO file of Windows 10.

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If you are a Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 user and want to upgrade your PC by installing Windows 10 on it, you need a USB drive and make it bootable.

Requirements:

• A USB drive of 4gb.
• Windows 10 ISO or Windows 10 DVD.
• A working Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1 PC.

If you use Windows 10 32-bit OS, you can’t prepare a bootable Windows 64-bit USB by using it. But, if you use Windows 10 64-bit OS, you can create both of the Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit USB device by using command prompt.

Install Windows 10 from USB Drive:

1. Unplug all the connected USB device from your PC. Make a back up of all data from your USB device. Then connect the USB to your PC.
2. Open command prompt with administrative privilege. It is very important that you run the command prompt only as admin, otherwise, you may get error.
3. Use the following command one by one – diskpart, list disk, select disk 1*, clean, create partition primary, select partition 1, active, format fs=ntfs quick, assign, exit
4. Minimize the command prompt and proceed to the next step.
5. Right click on the ISO image of Windows 10 and select ‘mount’ option to mount the ISO file. Open ‘This PC’ and note the drive letter of it (if you are a Windows 8/8.1 user). Windows 7 users do not get mount option and they need any ISO mounting software like ‘VirtualClone software’ for that. In this tutorial, we assume that the drive letter of the virtual drive is K:. If you use CD/DVD, then you can use the drive letter of the optical drive.
6. Maximize the command prompt Window and use the following command: K: CD BOOT, CD BOOT, BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 L:**.
7. When you see the command “Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes”, close the command prompt window.
8. Copy all the content of the Windows 10 ISO and paste it to the root of USB. Either you can copy files from the mounted drive or you can extract the Windows 10 ISO file contents to the USB.
9. Now, your USB drive is ready to boot and install Windows 10 to a PC. Just, you need to re-order the boot device priority and select the option “boot from USB” as first boot device priority.
10. Now, install Windows 10 as per on-screen instruction.

*Disk 1 – serial number of the disk.

**L stands for drive letter of USB drive.

Install Windows 10 to Flash Drive Using Third-party Software

So far, I have described different ways of creating bootable Windows 10 flash drive without using any third-party software. But this time I use ‘Rufus’ tool to create bootable USB for Windows 10. ‘Rufus’ is a free utility to create bootable USB drives in a very simple way. Lets see how to use ‘Rufus’ and create bootable USB to install Windows from USB on a PC.

Requirements:

• Desktop of minimum 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 2GB RAM for 64-bit installation, 16GB hard drive free space.
• 4GB USB flash drive for 32 bit and 8GB USB flash drive for 64 bit pc.
• ‘Rufus’ free tool.

Steps are as follows:

1. Download ‘Rufus’ from the following link: http://rufus.akeo.ie/
2. Download Windows 10 ISO from this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
3. Insert to flash drive to PC and run the ‘Rufus’ utility.
4. Rufus can detect the USB drive automatically.
5. Tick the checkbox that shows “create a bootable disk using ISO”.
6. From the drive icon, browse and select Windows 10 ISO.
7. Press ‘Start’ button in order to prepare USB drive and install Windows 10 direct from a USB thumb drive.

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