USB Mass Storage Mode For Windows Phone 7

Rich Gates November 19, 2010 USB Hacks

It’s standard for mobile phones to sync and connect with your computer with limited or no access to the memory for storage.Â As with our Zune hack for making a Mass Storage Device, here is a tip for the Windows Phone 7 as well…

Windows Phon 7 USB hack

The caviet to this tutorial, is that you can only perform the tweak to your computer which you sync the Windows Phone 7 device with. To get started, do the follwoing:

Open the registry editor on your PC by typing regedit in your Start menu
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB; search for ZuneDriver

Now you will modify three entries (note, if you have multiple WP7 phones, you have to do it for each one)

Change ShowInShell from 0 to 1
Change PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell from 1 to 0
Change EnableLegacySupport from 0 to 1

Note:Â Perform registry entries at your own risk.Â It’s best if you back up the Reg before starting. Source:Â IntoMoble.

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Rich Gates

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