USB pen drive letter not displayed

[allan1556]

I have recently purchased a USB 2 pen drive backwards compatible with USB 1.1.
The pen works OK when used in a USB 2 port.
When plugged into a USB 1.1 port the system recognises the drive but doesn’t display a drive letter. All the other drive letters are as they should be.
OS Windows XP pro

 

[ski]

Why not just use it with just a USB 2.0 port?
The data transfer rate for USB 2.0 is about 40 times as fast as compared to USB 1.1

 

[franklin97355]

Check out the xp forum.

 

[wcburton]

Does the system with the USB 1.1 port alread have a drive F: (either network or multiple CD's)?

I have seen that the USB drives want to always go in as drive F: even if there already is a drive F:

To fix this I go into Drive Manager (in Computer Management) and reassign the drive letter.

 

[Tejanorey]

once you go into "My Computer" and see all the drives...if you don't see your USB drive just go on top and hit VIEW/REFRESH...or right click and hit refresh and your USB drive should come up..


same thing happens to my computer..

Tejanorey

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