USB Mass Storage Device not assigning a drive letter. 2

[chanman525]

Hey all, I've got myself a problem. I have a Memorix 52X external USB CDR burner that was plugged into my computer. The drive letter was letter E. I unplugged it to plug in a 3.5" Hard Disk Enclosure and I can't get it to assign a drive letter. My F G and H drives are already mapped to network drives so I'm not sure if this is the reason or not. I tried to partition the drive using Computer Management under Administrative Tool but I can't see the drive in there either. Can someone shed some light on this?

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

has your disk been set to either master or slave ? Try setting him to master with a jumper , and then try again.

rgds

R.

 

[chanman525]

There was no change when I changed it to master. Even under Computer Management, it's not seeing the USB Mass Storage device.

 

[captaincrunch00]

Welcome to the wonderful world of USB. Plug it into a different port, uninstall the USB devices from Device Manager, reboot with it not installed, reboot with it installed, pray....

Those seem to be the only ways to fix USB. Not a single USB drive on my home computer works. I dont know why. Never have been able to fix it, and I refuse to upgrade to SP2.

 

[chanman525]

Is this a fix in Service Pack 2? What you told me did not work. When I plug back in the External Burner, it takes control of E just fine. Starting to get irritated.

 

[allteltec]

Network maped drives problem, Remove you mape drives and reboot and try again or look in the MS data base thay have a help info on how to fix. When you mape network drives you need to leave space for removeable divices. It is a Microsoft BUG.

 

[captaincrunch00]

That's not right Allteltec, Microsoft will grab the next open drive letter, I'm pretty sure that's not the problem.

I have 3 devices like this at home that just randomly dont work anymore. I've been told upgrading to SP2 may fix the problem but I havent tried it so I cannot verify that.
I've had problems with SP2 at work so I dont upgrade it at home.

 

[tekuser999]

Try manually assign a drive letter by going into control panel - administrative tools - computer management - disk management. See if your usb drive is there on the right panel, if it isn't then your USB drive may not be working properly.

If it is, right click on it and choose change drive letter and assign a drive letter then you can see it in windows explorer.

Good luck.

 

[rvnguy]

chanman525,

Check your doc's on the USB version that you have available, many USB drive devices only operate on USB 2.0

Try installing it on the IDE bus, correctly jumpered for the location that you have available, and formating it first.

Once formated, Re-jumper as master, place into the drive case and connect to USB this should allow you to see it.

rvnguy
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