USB drive without drive letter!

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Help!

Vista ultimate does not give me access to the USB drive even
though Vista loads the driver for the USB-IDE device. My
XP Pro laptop does not have problem with this same device.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.
 
C C said:
Help!

Vista ultimate does not give me access to the USB drive even
though Vista loads the driver for the USB-IDE device. My
XP Pro laptop does not have problem with this same device.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.
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It isn't by chance a U3 password protected drive is it?

Art
 
Art said:
It isn't by chance a U3 password protected drive is it?

Art
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No, it is not! The drive contains data from my Win2K machine which
was replaced by a brand new home built Vista Ultimate machine. I want
to bring in my data from that drive to the vista but it won't give me a
drive
letter. I may have to just connect it to my XP laptop and copy the files
through the network but that is very slow compared to the direct USB
connection to Vista. I only have 100megabit network.
 
I suggest start fresh
backup the data on the usb
plug in the vista pc, and format as FAT
Test on all computers before restoring the data
 
C said:
Help!

Vista ultimate does not give me access to the USB drive even
though Vista loads the driver for the USB-IDE device. My
XP Pro laptop does not have problem with this same device.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.
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Can you see it in Disk Management? If so KB297694 may be relevent.
 
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