USB disc drives

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I use USB disc drives for backing up my workstation. However I have run into
a problem.

I guess that for every drive I use, XP keeps an entry somewhere in it's
registry to identify that drive in the furture.

I think I've hit some sort of limit as I don't seem to be able to mount any
new drives, and in fact even drives I have previously used cannot be mounted.

The connected drive shows up as a USB Mass storage device as it always has,
but it doesn't get assigned a drive letter and it doesn't show up in Disk
Management.

I know it's not the drives, the USB Mass Storage adaptor and it's not the
USB I/F card as I have tried them all in another PC and everything works.

So...what is the limit, what is stopping my workstation from seeing anymore
USB drives ? How do I get it working again ? How do I stop it happening
again in the future ?

I am using WinXP Pro SP2 with ll the latest patches.
The drives are formatted as NTFS Basic volume with one Primary Partition.

 

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My guess would be some corrupt entry in the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider

etc.

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"hwalker" <hwalker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4B515F89-5174-4779-9FC6-70629895D74D@microsoft.com...
>I use USB disc drives for backing up my workstation. However I have run into
> a problem.
>
> I guess that for every drive I use, XP keeps an entry somewhere in it's
> registry to identify that drive in the furture.
>
> I think I've hit some sort of limit as I don't seem to be able to mount any
> new drives, and in fact even drives I have previously used cannot be mounted.
>
> The connected drive shows up as a USB Mass storage device as it always has,
> but it doesn't get assigned a drive letter and it doesn't show up in Disk
> Management.
>
> I know it's not the drives, the USB Mass Storage adaptor and it's not the
> USB I/F card as I have tried them all in another PC and everything works.
>
> So...what is the limit, what is stopping my workstation from seeing anymore
> USB drives ? How do I get it working again ? How do I stop it happening
> again in the future ?
>
> I am using WinXP Pro SP2 with ll the latest patches.
> The drives are formatted as NTFS Basic volume with one Primary Partition.
>
>