USB Memory sticks/Jump drives not in My Computer

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I am having a problem with pocket memory devices, such as USB based Lexar
Jump Drives and Dell Memory Keys not showing up in My Computer so that I can
save files to them. The devices show up in my Device Manager as they should;
USB Mass Storage Device. How can I get them to display in My Computer?
 
Open Disk Management and give them an unused letter. (Can be found under
Right click "My Computer", Manage) If the letter still doesn't show in
"Explorer", unhide it with TweakUI.
 
Sorry; I found them in the container, but I can't seem to assign a drive
letter. Could you post to me how that is accomplished?
 
I'm sorry once agian, please disregard. I found how to change the letter and
that worked. Thank you very much for your time!
 
Disconnect all your USB devices. Then rt click MyComputer>select
Properties>Hardware>Device Manager>USB Controllers. Rt click each one and
choose Uninstall. Restart and reconnect all USB devices.
 
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:58:04 -0700, "T.R. Young"
I am having a problem with pocket memory devices, such as USB based Lexar
Jump Drives and Dell Memory Keys not showing up in My Computer so that I can
save files to them. The devices show up in my Device Manager as they should;
USB Mass Storage Device. How can I get them to display in My Computer?
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The most common problem here, is a LAN-mapped share that has been
assigned the first drive letter after the last existing device.

Unlike in Win9x, XP will give network share drive letter mappings
precidence over everything else; even HD volumes.

So what happens is, you see the USB drive as a drive in Admin Tools,
Local Computer, Storage, blah blah blah but it doesn't have its own
drive letter in Windows Explorer. Assign it a different drive letter
via Admin Tools, Local Computer, Storage, blah blah blah.

The other possibility is that the format of the device is not
recognised, or the device is bad, to the extent that it's seen as
hardware, but not successfullt read as a drive (block device).
 
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