USB Flash drive Invisible 2

[NARSBARS]

I am the administrator on a networked XP PC. There are several network drives that are automatically in my computer. When I place a flash drive in the PC I can hear XP "seeing" the drive, but I can't find it in my computer.
I have tried My Computer-Manage and I still can't find or see the drive.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.

NARSBARS

 

[Grenage]

A common XP problem is that it tries to use a drive letter that is already assigned to a mapped drive. What I normally do is un-map the drives, insert the USB drive and assign it a different (and vacant) drive letter.

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[Diancecht]

Any help here?

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

Cheers,
Dian

 

[NARSBARS]

This would be the day I forgot to have a Flash drive with me! I will check out all the suggestions and report tomorrow.
Thank you

NARSBARS

 

[ltromans]

You don't have to unmap the drives first - just go to disk management and change the drive letter. You can verify which drive in "my computer", but normally it is the first share drive. In our case it's always "F" - the system drive.

 

[NARSBARS]

Thanks for the help. I could not follow the "change the drive letter" advice because the flash drive did not show up anywhere.

Diancecht,
Your advice fixed the problem, even though I don't know how. I downloaded the suggested program and ran the exe.

After running the program I had no luck using the utility itself and I thought it had failed. Probably user error on my part. BUT, then I went back to My computer, Disk Management, and THEN the flash drive had become visible and I was able to change the drive letter.

Thanks to everyone, this has been a plague.






NARSBARS

 

[gmmastros]

I just got a new mp3 player for Christmas. Everything worked fine from home (I could copy songs to it). At the office, it did not work. After searching for a little, I stumbled across this thread, and the post by Diancecht resolved my problem.

It was amazing, really. Thank you very much.

-George

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