USB Stick Detected, cannot access.. 1

[ConBran]

Hi All,

I have a disgo USB Stick that i am trying to access. I have plugged it in and it is appearing in the device manager and it says it is working properly, all my USB drivers and the drivers for this device are up to date. This is the problem, although its deteced, it isn't appearing in my computer and so i am unable to access the information on it!!!

I have used this at home and it works fine, i have also tried it in other machines in the office, and it works fine on them. I have used it on this machine before, its just not working now.

Any ideas, anyone?

 

[wolluf]

So its still working in other machines? Other USB devices work when plugged in same place? It definitely does contain data? Which o/s?

 

[ConBran]

Yeah, its definately working on other machines, other usb devices work in the same place (i tried my usb bluetooth adaptor and it worked fine), there is over 750Mb of data on it and I am currently running WinXP SP2.

Hope this helps, if you need anything else, just ask.

 

[bcastner]

. This may be a case where the drive letter was disabled (many people have made this mistake with TweakUI). Run TweakUI again and enable the drive letters;

. or, it is being over-mapped by a network drive. Use Disk Management and move some of the lower drive letter devices such as the CD Rom drives to non-conflicting high drive letters. This creates alphabetic "space" that the USB drive can then claim as a socket.

. XP SP2 specific isssue:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=873169

 

[ConBran]

Well, I dont know what the issue was with the drive letter, it was auto mapping to H, but this wouldnt appear. So, I did as adivsed and changed the letter to M in disk manager - I strongly doubt ANYTHING would ever try to use that letter - and lo and behold, there it is in my computer!!

Thanks for the advice fellas

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[ltromans]

Wow thanks for the tip. I just plugged a second usb device into my PC and it disappeared. Turns out it was mapped to my F: drive (my network system drive). Changed it to another letter and all is well.

Thanks

 

[garebo]

Can i ask, how you do change it when you cant even find it in the first place? How do you know its mapped to, say, F drive, if you cant see it?
I am asking because i have a bunch of usb goodies, a few external boxes with hard drives in them, and a couple usb thumb drives. They all work fine except for one cheap generic usb thumb drive i have. I cant seem to get it to install.
But my other usb drives go all the way to M with no problem. I was thinking this one thumb drive is just no good even though its new, but then reading above i wonder if this drive simply needs to be a certain drive letter.

I am responding here as it seems that Conbran is all set, his problem is squared away so he doesnt need this thread anyway.
thanks



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