[W2003 Server] USB2 drive on a USB1 controller

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Vincent Delporte

Hello

I'm running Windows 2003 Server on an older test host that has a USB 1
controller. Although W2003 does detect the USB2 thumb drive and lists
it under mass storage, tells me that I would get better performance if
I used a USB2 controller, but doesn't assign it a drive letter.

Anybody knows what to do?

Thank you.
 
Vincent Delporte said:
I'm running Windows 2003 Server on an older test host that has a USB 1
controller. Although W2003 does detect the USB2 thumb drive and lists
it under mass storage, tells me that I would get better performance if
I used a USB2 controller, but doesn't assign it a drive letter.
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Anybody knows what to do?
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Add a USB2 card if you care about the speed.
 
Previously Vincent Delporte said:
Hello
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I'm running Windows 2003 Server on an older test host that has a USB 1
controller. Although W2003 does detect the USB2 thumb drive and lists
it under mass storage, tells me that I would get better performance if
I used a USB2 controller, but doesn't assign it a drive letter.
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Anybody knows what to do?
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Maybe there is no filesystem on the drive?

Arno
 
Maybe there is no filesystem on the drive?

Arno
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Or an incompatible filesystem? I've noticed a harddisk formatted using
Win2000 (NTFS) was not recognised when attached to a Win2003server box.

/Rolf
 
Or an incompatible filesystem? I've noticed a harddisk formatted using
Win2000 (NTFS) was not recognised when attached to a Win2003server box.
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Thx guys. The answer was to go into Device Manager > Disk Manager and
assign a letter to the USB drive manually.
 
Vincent Delporte said:
Thx guys. The answer was to go into Device Manager > Disk Manager and
assign a letter to the USB drive manually.
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As usual the answer was embedded in the question.
 
Vincent Delporte said:
Was it?
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Similar to your 'question' not being in the 2 words with the question mark,
yet we know what the question is.

When you said that it wasn't "getting a drive letter" the solution was ob-
viously in "getting it a drive letter". See? Simple.
 
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