The price of peace is eternal vigilance, especially when we are in charge of a shared computer. The famous “it wasn’t me” or “it broke on its own” arise at the slightest problem, but there are some tools that can assist us in our detective work. One of those tools is USBDriveLog, created by the tireless Nirsoft to view all USB drive connections on your PC. No matter if it’s a pen drive, memory card, SSD or external hard drive, USBDriveLog will help you know more.
Connecting a pen drive or external disk via USB is perfectly natural these days, but an extra layer of caution is needed when we work with units that are not ours. I mean that a pen drive is easy to share, as much as the potential malware inside. Most security solutions should be able to intercept any malicious code, however... luck can run out.
That’s when tools like USBDriveLog intervene, which helps us view all USB drive connections on a PC with Windows 10 or Windows 11, and detect the moment when an unknown pen drive or disk was used.
View all USB drive connections on your PC with USBDriveLog
Following Nirsoft’s classic line, USBDriveLog does not require installation or special dependencies. Once the tool is executed, its interface will show the list with all registered connections. USBDriveLog obtains data from the event channels Microsoft-Windows-Partition/Diagnostic and Microsoft-Windows-Storsvc/Diagnostic, and if any other application can delete those logs or they were deactivated by the user, USBDriveLog will not report anything.
A double click on any of the entries will reveal additional details such as device brand and model, revision (this can be a simple number, or the type of technology), Device ID, size, file format, and most importantly: exact date and time of connection and disconnection. USBDriveLog has options to use GMT in those dates, include milliseconds in time (a minor detail, but it’s there), and modify the storage unit between divisions of 1,000 or 1,024.
Once again, USBDriveLog obtains its data from two event channels present only in Windows 10 and Windows 11. This is unusual in Nirsoft software, but the limitation has a technical origin: If you use it on Windows 8.x or earlier, USBDriveLog will not work.
Official site and download: Click here
