Re: Missing USB Key

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
"Galen" <galennews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In news:428c9e6b$0$301$ed9e5944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Nigel Bruce <nigel.bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>> 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
>
> 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
> --
>
> "And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
> with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
> 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
>


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