Patent ID: 8423691

Claim:
A method for recognizing a removable storage device of a computer device, the computer device comprising Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports, the method comprising: detecting the USB ports to determine whether one of the USB ports is newly connected to the removable storage device; displaying a message on a display screen of the computer device to prompt whether the removable storage device needs to be renamed, and receiving input data from a user, upon the condition that one of the USB ports is newly connected to the removable storage device; determining whether the removable storage device needs to be renamed according to the input data from the user; acquiring a unique port number of the USB port connected to the removable storage device through a device manager of the computer device, and acquiring a device name and a system disk name of the removable storage device originally allocated by the computer device, upon the condition that the removable storage device needs to be renamed, wherein the unique port number of the USB port is marked near the USB port with a label on a cover of the computer device in advance; regarding the unique port number of the USB port as a new device name of the removable storage device, to rename the removable storage device.