Problem with USB Devices

Your camera showing up as a removable drive in "my computer"? Have you tried the devices you are having problems with at the moment in another computer to make sure they are fine?

If you have any mapped drive with no empty letters low then it
they will cover up any removable drive you plug in

anyone?

Does the devices that don't work show up in the device manager?

Have you loaded the USB drivers from the cd (or downloaded the latest drivers from the web site?) What OS are you Using?

If I had to guess, there is an old driver conflict. Try a free registry cleaner or double check what messages you get in the device manager

Thanks for the response, guys.

BC,they do show up in device manager. Using Win XP SP2. Haven't loaded the drivers from cd because I don't have the CD and the manufacturer's website doesn't have the drivers.

Nukemaster, I ran disk managment , here's what shows up whenever I ran it. What do I need to do from this point? The Device in question is the one that shows up with no drive letter that's in the FAT format.

thanks for the walkthrough, it's funny because i've actually done this before but wasn't sure if you wanted me to the same thing. anyways, the drive letter was change to P, i think i assigned it like J or K before. It shows up as P in disk management , but when I go to my computer, it's not there. When i type in P:\ in the explorer bar i get an error msg saying it can't be found. but I was able to explore my P drive in disk management. So what's going on here? It looks like i'm ALMOST done solving the problem, but would like for it to show up whenever i open "my computer"

yeah, when I explore from disk management it kinda works. It'll allow me to see what's in the drive but after about two seconds it'll redirect me to my computer where the drive won't show up.

what I also noticed is that when i Look in my computer there's no drive there

BUT when i try to save a file and browse to find a location to save it on my computer from the pulldown menu, the drives letter's that i've assigned to my usb devices are showing up.

if you look at the screenshot of my computer there's only like 4 drive letters there, but on the other screenshot on the pulldown menu, there's like 6. the extra drives are from when I tried renaming the driver letter before, and i guess the computer remembered those changes. and no, i've never used software to hide my drive letters or anything funky like that.

Thanks for the help BC, i think I had run across that post on google before I checked here or one similar to that. Still pretty much nothing. I did go into my registry and delete the drive letters that weren't being used by my HDD's or DVD-Rom drive and went back into disk management and reassigned a drive letter to my removable devices. Still doesn't want to show up in my computer. But at least now I can at least access my mp3 player through this computer, just have to go trough disk management.

Another thing is that I can't see my scanner at all. Windows doesn't even detect its' hooked up. I'm probably just going to back everything up and reinstall windows.

I had a somewhat similar problem (looked for link to topic, but I can't find it). After a fresh install of vista (on newly built computer) the OS would not recognize any external hard drives unless they were plugged in after booting up the operating system. If you rebooted with it plugged in, it would disappear - and also take forever to finish its reboot. Flash drives, however, were recognized fine. Anyway, point of story is it never got totally fixed but it improved after following MB mfg. advice to download the chipset from Intel's website and install it. Intel says don't bother reinstalling it for USB related problems (or something like that), but it did improve things for me. Maybe worth a try?