RE: Jump Drive not recognized as drive on laptop, using XP Pro
- From: John <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:40:01 -0700
Unfortunately, after a week on the microsoft newsgroups, this post failed to
generate one response. Luckily, I found another website outside of microsoft
where others offered assistance, and somebody found the solution for me.
JThom, thank you so much! That was the info I needed to solve the problem! I searched for the 3 files mentioned. I found secdrv.sys and sptd.sys, both in the WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/drivers folder. I didn't find sptd409, but did find a file in the same folder called sptd6749.sys, so I deleted that file as well. Once I rebooted, the drive was FINALLY assigned a drive automatically, and recognized as a drive.
Thanks for everyone that offered help, and especially to JThom for finding
the solution!
[quote name='Jthom203' date='Apr 13 2006, 09:01 PM' post='107961']
i had a similar problem after i upgraded from home to pro and i searched the
net and found this on another forum.
[quote]Explorer was not recognizing any USB mass storage device including
ipod and sandisk although they appeared in device manager. After tearing out
what little remaining hair I have left, tracked the problem to the existance
of three driver files in windows\system32\drivers :
secdrv.sys
sptd.sys
sptd409.sys
All dated around when the probelm surfaced.
One is related to anti-piracy software that probably came with a computer
game, the others were installed as part of a failed attempt to install daemon
tools 4.0. In any event, I deleted those 3 files and rebooted. The system
then "saw" the devices and asked me to reboot again afterwhich everything
behaved properly. All is well although I am tired and bald.[/quote]
Here is the link the quote above is comment 13
this solved my problem and i hope it helps
[/quote]
"John" wrote:
(note: I posted this in general section earlier today, but have gotten no.
response. Hopefully somebody can help me with this).
Yesterday, I asked a question on how to upgrade XP Home to XP Pro, because
the XP Pro disc I had didn't have SP2 (when my XP home version did). With
help, I slipstreamed SP2 into XP Pro, and upgraded successfully.
I just noticed a major problem today. I bought a jump drive yesterday
(needed for school), and on XP home, the drive worked fine - it was assigned
drive letter F:, and showed up in Windows Explorer and My Computer. Since
the upgrade, Windows Explorer/My Computer does NOT show the jump drive.
I reassigned the jump drive manually to drive f:, and I was able to click
into it due to a desktop shortcut to that drive that I put on yesterday;
however, it still didn't show up in Windows Explorer, and when I rebooted,
the jump drive was once again unaccessible.
Does anybody know why this is occurring? I'm going to try reassigning the
drive to a higher letter, rebooting to see if that fixes the problem. Let me
know though if you have any info on this matter.
One other thing I thought I should note: The jump drive works perfectly
fine on my desktop with XP Home, and again, worked on the laptop until I
upgraded to XP pro.
Thanks,
John
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