USB Flash Drives

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Go into disk management and give it a drive letter (suggest R for removable)
that is out of the way of other drives.

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Richard Urban
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Richard Urban said:
Go into disk management and give it a drive letter (suggest R for removable)
that is out of the way of other drives.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!




I tried that, gave it "S", but it still doesn't show. It does show up in my digital camera software however.
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Is the flash drive formatted? If it is not it will not show up in Windows
Explorer at all.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Richard Urban said:
Is the flash drive formatted? If it is not it will not show up in Windows
Explorer at all.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!




As far as I know, it isn't formatted. This is probably because I can't get to it.
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I can access, format, and move files to this drive from the command prompt.
It still won't show in Windows Explorer however.
 
Tom, are you sure? When you plug in a USB Flash Drive it should
automatically appear as a new drive in "Explorer" without any other
action on your behalf. I know I've missed it a couple of times myself.
Sorry to ask the dumb question, but sometimes it needs to be asked.

Have you tried another USB socket? Again, sorry about asking the
obvious. Have you tried it in someone else's machine?

By the way, these sticks usually come pre-formatted.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
How come my flash drive won't show up in one windows xp pro computer,
when at another it will show up with drive letter b (i assigned it) and
on another it will show up as I, and yet another at E. Why?
 
I hadn't tried it in another socket so I tried that after your email. It
still doesn't show up. The system finds it from applications if I force the
S: drive designation. I just can't get Windows Explorer to show it.
 
I have had flash drive. that I used before automatically show up in the My
Computer window. I have 2 other USB flash drives that are working properly,
but put another one in, and it is a San Disk 512 M. It shows up in My
Computer as drive P, but has no information on it, and is not accessible. I
have seen where you are supposed to use a file called usbXXXX.sys with flash
drives, but this drive doesn't have that file shown as part of the driver
package. Why can't Windows XP Pro determine that a device is a USB flash
drive and not some other sort of Storage. I seems to think that this device
is a CD drive. Right now, the new USB Flash drive is sitting there as drive
P, but can't seem to do anything with it. Any ideas of how to move ahead to
be able to use this drive that I got as a Christmas Present!!!!

Ron Geiken
 
I've got the same issue with 2 client computers. I can see the drive both in
the device manager and in disk management (drive letter is already assigned).

I can open the drive in a cmd prompt and even use diskpart to see it.
Stranger still is that by using the "explorer e:\" command, I do get an
explorer window with the drive contents. However it still does not show in
'My Computer" and I can't get to it by typing the drive letter in an Explorer
address bar.

I've tried every combination of uninstalling/reinstalling USB roots/hubs and
devices to no avail. The drive works fine in other computers and I'm
stumped. Any help would be awesome.

A final note: the drive does show up in the Control Panel under 'Portable
Media Devices". thanks,

Matt
 
I'm not sure how this is done within Windows, I used a program called
TweakUI. All I had to do was put a check in the box next to available drive
letters. Before I got the Flash drives, all I had checked for display were
my floppy, hard drives, and removeables. So all that displayed were
A,C,D,E,& F. I checked the boxes next to the appropriate number of drives
and now they all display in My Computer.
 
Tom,

Thanks, but I've tried that, too. Any other suggestions, I'll take any at
this point. Autoplay is also enabled for the drive.

Matt
 
My San Disk 512 Meg Cruiser drive still doesn't want to be recognized in my
computer even though two other flash drives do. The San Disk flash drive
works in a friends dell windows 2000 computer besides her dell Windows XP
computer. Both of them are Laptops. The Windows XP computer is updated to the
latest revison level as is my HP that accept the drive, and assigns it a
drive letter, in fact two drive letters, one being a CD drive, and on a
storage drive. I don't really need for this drive to work, but it is annoying
to have this kind of problem. I shows that Microsoft after almost 5 years
doesn't really have the handle on flash drives being used in a Windows XP
computer. Too bad they don't let us tell the computer what kind of drive it
is so that it can handle it properly.

Ron Geiken
 
I am trying to download some PowerPoint files on to a new flash drive. I
plugged it into the side of my laptop (Compaq Presario) and thought I loaded
the files into the drive that says Presario and what appears to be a picture
of the flash drive next to it. It is my understanding that when the files
are loading on the flash drive that it s suppose to light up and flash until
everything is complete. When I took the flash drive to my local print shop
they said there was nothing on it.
Now, I am home looking in my directory to see what I did wrong. There are
the same drive letters as before and I am confused. Please advise.

Starchild
 
starchild said:
I am trying to download some PowerPoint files on to a new flash drive. I
plugged it into the side of my laptop (Compaq Presario) and thought I
loaded
the files into the drive that says Presario and what appears to be a
picture
of the flash drive next to it. It is my understanding that when the files
are loading on the flash drive that it s suppose to light up and flash
until
everything is complete. When I took the flash drive to my local print shop
they said there was nothing on it.
Now, I am home looking in my directory to see what I did wrong. There are
the same drive letters as before and I am confused. Please advise.

Starchild
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When you plug the flash drive into a USB port you should hear the Windows
acknowledgement chime telling you that Windows has seen the drive and it is
ready for work. In Windows Explorer you would see a new drive letter and
drive name. This name is usually the actual name of the drive, Kingston,
Iomega, etc.

Simply copy the files from their location on the hard drive to this flash
drive. Wait until you see Windows is done moving the files. Remove the
drive and off you go.
 
someone, please help on this matter. i cannot even see the drive in disk
manager. how else can i access a drive?
 
someone, please help on this matter. i cannot even see the drive in disk
manager. how else can i access a drive?
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First I should reboot the computer with the flash drive in position in the USB2
port - if that does not make a difference, I should go to
Start/Setting/ControlPanel/Add Remove Hardware - follow instructions.

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
I jumped for joy when I read Tom's answer (well sort of!) and as I have this
program, tried it. Yes I could allocate umpteen drive letters which then
appeared in my computer but the PC thinks it refers to a disk. I have clicked
on Properties in the new drive and found the USB Drive, but can't get any
further. Am I am just being thick (you can be honest!) or is there soemthing
else I should be doing to get the two to marry up. I have run a hardware
check and it says that this drive is working properly but there is no way I
can open it to transfer my daughters wedding pics - which was for someone for
Christmas. Any thoughts gratefully received. thanks.
 
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