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Just bought a memorex 1-gig flash usb drive. It appears under My Computer
in work computers amd 2 of them here at the house. However the one I need
the most --the removeable "f" drive will not appear in either explorer or my
computer. If I right click on my computer and go to manage--I can see it
under disk maanagement--but that's the only way I can access it. Does anyone
have any ideas.
Thankyou for any and all help.

 

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Unhide the letter with TweakUI.

mrhangster wrote:

> Just bought a memorex 1-gig flash usb drive. It appears under My Computer
> in work computers amd 2 of them here at the house. However the one I need
> the most --the removeable "f" drive will not appear in either explorer or my
> computer. If I right click on my computer and go to manage--I can see it
> under disk maanagement--but that's the only way I can access it. Does anyone
> have any ideas.
> Thankyou for any and all help.
>
>

 

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"mrhangster" <hangsters@charter.net> wrote:

>Just bought a memorex 1-gig flash usb drive. It appears under My Computer
>in work computers amd 2 of them here at the house. However the one I need
>the most --the removeable "f" drive will not appear in either explorer or my
>computer. If I right click on my computer and go to manage--I can see it
>under disk maanagement--but that's the only way I can access it. Does anyone
>have any ideas.

Do you have a networked drive occupying the first letter after your
hard drive partitions and CD/DVD drive? It seems that XP always tries
to map a USB drive (key drive, etc) to that position, even if there's
already a network drive using that letter. In that case you won't be
able to see the USB drive you just plugged in. Remap the network drive
to another letter and keep the first one after the fixed drives
available for USB use.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov

 

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Bless you Bob
You guys are the best.
Thankyou very much.
That did work.


"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Unhide the letter with TweakUI.
>
> mrhangster wrote:
>
>> Just bought a memorex 1-gig flash usb drive. It appears under My
>> Computer in work computers amd 2 of them here at the house. However the
>> one I need the most --the removeable "f" drive will not appear in either
>> explorer or my computer. If I right click on my computer and go to
>> manage--I can see it under disk maanagement--but that's the only way I
>> can access it. Does anyone have any ideas.
>> Thankyou for any and all help.
>>
>>
>

 

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You're welcome, glad to help.

mrhangster wrote:

> Bless you Bob
> You guys are the best.
> Thankyou very much.
> That did work.
>
>
> "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Hev7DIuFHA.4080@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
>>Unhide the letter with TweakUI.
>>
>>mrhangster wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Just bought a memorex 1-gig flash usb drive. It appears under My
>>>Computer in work computers amd 2 of them here at the house. However the
>>>one I need the most --the removeable "f" drive will not appear in either
>>>explorer or my computer. If I right click on my computer and go to
>>>manage--I can see it under disk maanagement--but that's the only way I
>>>can access it. Does anyone have any ideas.
>>>Thankyou for any and all help.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

 

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Thankyou Tim-for the come back--Bob's suggestion worked.
I'll remember what you've suggested.
You guys are good.


"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
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> "mrhangster" <hangsters@charter.net> wrote:
>
>>Just bought a memorex 1-gig flash usb drive. It appears under My Computer
>>in work computers amd 2 of them here at the house. However the one I need
>>the most --the removeable "f" drive will not appear in either explorer or
>>my
>>computer. If I right click on my computer and go to manage--I can see it
>>under disk maanagement--but that's the only way I can access it. Does
>>anyone
>>have any ideas.
>
> Do you have a networked drive occupying the first letter after your
> hard drive partitions and CD/DVD drive? It seems that XP always tries
> to map a USB drive (key drive, etc) to that position, even if there's
> already a network drive using that letter. In that case you won't be
> able to see the USB drive you just plugged in. Remap the network drive
> to another letter and keep the first one after the fixed drives
> available for USB use.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(DTS)
> Slattery_T@bls.gov