USB QUESTION

[Guest]

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Hi all, Quick question. When i plug in a digital camera or a usb hard drive,
windows says it finds it and says its ready to go but there is no icon
popping up for it in the my computer window. any ideas??

 

[bar]

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Under 'My Computer' a USB drive or Camera will be identified as another hard
drive.

"Tom Cahoone" wrote:

> Hi all, Quick question. When i plug in a digital camera or a usb hard drive,
> windows says it finds it and says its ready to go but there is no icon
> popping up for it in the my computer window. any ideas??
>
>
>

 

[frank]

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"Tom Cahoone" <stellacahoone@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Iv4zd.59996$Jk5.56649@lakeread01...
> Hi all, Quick question. When i plug in a digital camera or a usb hard
> drive,
> windows says it finds it and says its ready to go but there is no icon
> popping up for it in the my computer window. any ideas??

Just a shot: try a >view >refresh. If that don't work try different
cables. There are a lot
of bad cables out there.

 

[Guest]

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Unfortunately, there isn't a simple way to troubleshoot why a removable drive
doesn't show up as a drive letter.
All one can do for now, is to poke around device manager, disk manager and so on
--PA


"Tom Cahoone" <stellacahoone@cox.net> wrote in message news:Iv4zd.59996$Jk5.56649@lakeread01...
> Hi all, Quick question. When i plug in a digital camera or a usb hard drive,
> windows says it finds it and says its ready to go but there is no icon
> popping up for it in the my computer window. any ideas??
>
>

 

[Sandman]

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Au contraire; a USB camera shows-up as a camera icon in My Computer applet
in XP....

"Pavel A." <pavel_a@NOwritemeNO.com> wrote in message
news:#5nAn4r6EHA.3828@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Unfortunately, there isn't a simple way to troubleshoot why a removable
drive
> doesn't show up as a drive letter.
> All one can do for now, is to poke around device manager, disk manager and
so on
> --PA
>
>
> "Tom Cahoone" <stellacahoone@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Iv4zd.59996$Jk5.56649@lakeread01...
> > Hi all, Quick question. When i plug in a digital camera or a usb hard
drive,
> > windows says it finds it and says its ready to go but there is no icon
> > popping up for it in the my computer window. any ideas??
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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BAR wrote:
> Under 'My Computer' a USB drive or Camera will be identified as
> another hard drive.

Sorry, but this is complete rubbish. I have a camera (EOS 10D) and, when I
plug it in via USB my system picks it up for what it is - an EOS 10D camera
and it shows up in My Computer and Scanners and Cameras as exactly that. My
LaCie external drive (USB2/FireWire) is shown as a hard drive. If I plug my
camera's memory card into the card reader it's shown as a removable drive.
--
Facon - the artificial bacon bits you get in Pizza Hut for sprinkling
on salads.