I have 2 card readers in my Velocity micro tower, using XP Pro, and neither is recognized as a drive when i open my computer. There are no question marks or exclamation marks in my system folder. They used to show up as drives F and G, with my WD external showing up as H. (The WD is what I back up to each day and take offsite). Any suggestions as to where they went or how I can get them to show up? Thanks in advance.
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InterlinkModule
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these are internal readers? when did u reboot last?
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Have you added any other USB items lately? I ask because, on my mobo the card reader has it's own dedicated port pins. If you use this port, the USB 1 port (on the back of the computer) is disabled. Unplug the other external USB devices, reboot, and see if the reader comes back.
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They are internal and I rebbot every couple of days. However, I always leave one end of the USB cable plugged into the port even after I remove the external drive. This time I unplugged it as per micker77's suggestion and they are both showing up as f and g. Still do not completely understand why they do not work or show up when the external is plugged in to the port tho. But I can live with this. Thanks for the feedback folks. Appreciate it.
InterlinkModule
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Curious.....I used to leave my USB camera cable plugged in but with nothing attached and no problems...in any case, looks like you got things working! 
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Could be that the computer is assigning the drive letters that are already used. I notice (on my test bench), that I have: A: (floppy) C: (HDD) D: (2nd partition on HDD) E: (CD). When I plug in a USB drive, it becomes D:, and E: 2nd) F: (CD).
InterlinkModule
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yes I've noticed similar on my XP Pro sp2 athlon system. Finally got my drives in order too. Every time I installed/repalced a hard drive the letters changed. So it was like C: HDD, D: CD, E: 2nd HDD, or sometimes G:, H:. Now it's C:, hard drive D: 2nd hard drive, and E: is the optical drive. yay!
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