Re: Missing USB Key

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Many thanks, this has worked a treat

Regards

"NewsReader" <NewsReader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In Disk Management, right click on the drive and go through the "Change
> Drive Letter and Paths..." option. Assign the drive to a drive letter not
> mapped by your login script.
>
> "Nigel Bruce" <nigel.bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:428cb304$0$301$ed9e5944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>> news:uya9MCIXFHA.1044@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 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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