Re: USB storage device detected, but drive not displayed

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From: Joseph (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:56:06 -0800

Andrew, Julia and co

I had the same problem, and manage to resolve it. Although not with a Lexar external drive.
First off, you did not mention your environment. You have admin rights I presume.
Or else you would not have been able to change the drive letter through *** Mannagement. Ok.
What other computers can you connect the drive to? It is possible that you need a specific driver for XP
to recognise the drive. I guess you must be using the default generic M$ USB driver.

My problem was that the letter assigned to the drive before using it in the caddy, was e drive, the same as my path to a network drive. Hence drive is detected but not accessible. Disconnect the network drive and it remains, except now it show the external drive's contents. Solution: change the drive letter of either the path of network drive or the external drive's letter. The trick is you need to have admin rights. If you swap between different environments with different user levels the disk reverts to the one it knows about as seen through the registry. As a result my external drive is E: at work, where I do not have admin rights and any letter I choose to have at home. Your mileage may vary, because it can still be a driver issue.

So with this rather longwinded explanation, hope to have been of some help.

Joseph

::The choices we make rather than the chances we take determines our destiny::

     
     ----- Julia wrote: -----
     
     Hey,
     
     I had the same problem.
     
     I followed your suggestion, but it still did not appear.
     My hard disk is a brand new western 160 GB, and I am
     using a USB drawer. I had no problem with regular USB
     hard disk.
     
     Any idea?
     
     Julia
     
     
>-----Original Message-----
>Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the
     following screen,
>select Disk Management. It will appear on the right
     hand side. Assign it a
>drive letter.
>>Cari
>www.coribright.com
>>"Andrew" <andrew_horwitz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:f59401c3f18c$1ad618e0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>I have a lexar jumpdrive that works on other computers.
>> On mine (windows XP) it is detected, but not displayed
>> under drives in "My Computer".
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>>.
>

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