Missing USB Key

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Nigel Bruce

Can some please tell me why when I plug in my USB key into my PC running WIN
XP Pro it detects it (I only know this because I have the safely remove
hardware option in the sys tray appear) but I cannot see it in explorer. I
have checked Device Manager and all seems ok by default, what am doing
wrong?

Regards

Nigel
 
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Can some please tell me why when I plug in my USB key into my PC
running WIN XP Pro it detects it (I only know this because I have the
safely remove hardware option in the sys tray appear) but I cannot
see it in explorer. I have checked Device Manager and all seems ok by
default, what am doing wrong?

Regards

Nigel
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What happens if you press start > run > type COMPMGMT.MSC > hit enter >
click on disk management? Is it there listed as unformatted or has no drive
letter? Assign it a drive letter first and then see if it's not formatted.
If it isn't then format it.

Galen
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very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes
 
Hi Galen, it is showing up but as a drive that is mapped via my login
script?

Is says 62Mb (FAT) healthy and active but is under the g:\ drive (my mapped
home drive here at the office) can i force this to change everytime?

Regs

Nigel
 
In Disk Management, right click on the drive and go through the "Change
Drive Letter and Paths..." option. Assign the drive to a drive letter not
mapped by your login script.
 
Can some please tell me why when I plug in my USB key into my PC running WIN
XP Pro it detects it (I only know this because I have the safely remove
hardware option in the sys tray appear) but I cannot see it in explorer. I
have checked Device Manager and all seems ok by default, what am doing
wrong?
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I have encountered this problem. It appears that a USB drive will get
assigned the first available drive letter after the physical disks.
So if you have, say, two hard disks (C: and D:) and a CD drive (E:)
the USB key will be assigned to F:

If you have a mapped network drive already on F:, you don't see the
USB key; however, if I recall correctly, if you open the F: drive
you'll see the contents of the USB key even though the icon is the one
for a network drive.

The fix is to ensure that there's always at least one spare drive
letter between you last physical drive and your first mapped network
one.
 
Many thanks, this has worked a treat

Regards

NewsReader said:
In Disk Management, right click on the drive and go through the "Change
Drive Letter and Paths..." option. Assign the drive to a drive letter not
mapped by your login script.
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