flash drive not showing in My Computer

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I have an 8gb Patriot Xporter flash drive. On my second computer it
installed easily and an icon for it popped up in My Computer. No reboot was
necessary. But when I installed it on my first computer, after the
installation I was told a reboot was necessary. I've rebooted and the flash
drive is listed under Computer Management, both in Device Manager, and also
under Storage/Removable storage. But it hasn't shown up in My Computer, so
I don't have a way to access it. Both computers are running Windows 2000.

Could someone suggestion a solution to my problem...thanks.

John
 
Strange! What if you, in disk manager, right click on the icon for the
flash drive and choose Explore?

Previously said:
I have an 8gb Patriot Xporter flash drive. On my second computer it
installed easily and an icon for it popped up in My Computer. No reboot was
necessary. But when I installed it on my first computer, after the
installation I was told a reboot was necessary. I've rebooted and the flash
drive is listed under Computer Management, both in Device Manager, and also
under Storage/Removable storage. But it hasn't shown up in My Computer, so
I don't have a way to access it. Both computers are running Windows 2000.

Could someone suggestion a solution to my problem...thanks.

John
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Lars
Stockholm
 
The problem is solved...I was looking for the My Computer icon to be at the
end of the list of partitions (as it was on my other computer). I just
noticed it was in the middle, where there was an available letter(F:). I
confirmed this by doing what you suggeste4d, and Explore showed it on F:
along with the files that were in the flash drive. My Computer has a long
list of partitions because it includes the mapped drives from my other
computer, and there are many. So either it just popped into the list after
I last checked, or I just overlooked it.

Thanks for the help.
 
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