Re: Missing USB Key
- From: Michael M Mason <mmmason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:26:58 +0100
On Thu, 19 May 2005 15:12:46 +0100, "Nigel Bruce"
<nigel.bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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?
I have encountered this problem. It appears that a USB drive will get
assigned the first available drive letter after the physical disks.
So if you have, say, two hard disks (C: and D:) and a CD drive (E:)
the USB key will be assigned to F:
If you have a mapped network drive already on F:, you don't see the
USB key; however, if I recall correctly, if you open the F: drive
you'll see the contents of the USB key even though the icon is the one
for a network drive.
The fix is to ensure that there's always at least one spare drive
letter between you last physical drive and your first mapped network
one.
--
Michael
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