memory stick vs. network drives

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Mike Maxwell

I have a work-around for a problem, and I'm posting it here in hopes that
someone else will find it useful (and maybe Microsoft will fix it).

I have a memory stick that works just fine under Win2k. Under WindowsXP,
the OS would detect it just fine when I plugged it into the USB port, and
claimed to install it. But it wouldn't show up in Windows Explorer.

The problem turned out to be that I already had a network drive mapped to
drive E. That had worked fine under Win2k--when I plugged the stick in, it
would just take the first available drive letter. It does not work under
WinXP; the memory stick has to be drive E.

The work-around was to re-map the network drive to drive F, then log out and
back in. Now my stick shows up fine as drive E.

Can you say "bug"? I knew you could...

Mike Maxwell
Linguistic Data Consortium
NOmaxwellSPAM at ldc dot upenn dot edu
 
Mike Maxwell said:
I have a work-around for a problem, and I'm posting it here in hopes that
someone else will find it useful (and maybe Microsoft will fix it).

I have a memory stick that works just fine under Win2k. Under WindowsXP,
the OS would detect it just fine when I plugged it into the USB port, and
claimed to install it. But it wouldn't show up in Windows Explorer.

The problem turned out to be that I already had a network drive mapped to
drive E. That had worked fine under Win2k--when I plugged the stick in, it
would just take the first available drive letter. It does not work under
WinXP; the memory stick has to be drive E.

The work-around was to re-map the network drive to drive F, then log out and
back in. Now my stick shows up fine as drive E.

Can you say "bug"? I knew you could...

Mike Maxwell
Linguistic Data Consortium
NOmaxwellSPAM at ldc dot upenn dot edu
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My Sony Memory Stick takes ahe next available drive letter, which is K:
 
Mike Maxwell said:
I have a work-around for a problem, and I'm posting it here in hopes that
someone else will find it useful (and maybe Microsoft will fix it).

I have a memory stick that works just fine under Win2k. Under WindowsXP,
the OS would detect it just fine when I plugged it into the USB port, and
claimed to install it. But it wouldn't show up in Windows Explorer.

The problem turned out to be that I already had a network drive mapped to
drive E. That had worked fine under Win2k--when I plugged the stick in, it
would just take the first available drive letter. It does not work under
WinXP; the memory stick has to be drive E.

The work-around was to re-map the network drive to drive F, then log out and
back in. Now my stick shows up fine as drive E.

Can you say "bug"? I knew you could...

Mike Maxwell
Linguistic Data Consortium
NOmaxwellSPAM at ldc dot upenn dot edu
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Yup. Sounds like a bug. In your setup. My memory sticks seem to behave
properly.
 
D.Currie said:
Yup. Sounds like a bug. In your setup. My memory sticks seem to behave
properly.
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What setup? The driver is built into WindowsXP, isn't it? Or is part of it
on the memory stick? For the record, mine is from acgtek.com.

Mike Maxwell
 
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