Removable drive drivers. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev () I have a Minolta digital camera. when i had WInME, the driver worked fine, and the camera was recognized by my computer. now i just installed WinXP. everything...

in order to write the driver files you need to some removable device like a floppy disk or USB "thumb drive". THAT is how you get driver files onto that removable device so you can use it in the Install process on your new machine. But then, according to your...

improper drivers". There are no IDE drives listed now under the same screen, only the floppy yet Windows obviously sees the drives and they operate. I first removed ALL IDE drivers thinking Windows would refind and install them at the next boot ... NOT!!!...

to the new hard drive. Of course, you should install the SATA/RAID drivers for your motherboard first so that windows doesn't have a problem booting. (and yeah, I've done that before to step around no floppy drive and the drivers were so bad I couldn't slipstream...

refer me to windows help for more info.....I cannot find more info! Any ideas.... Thanks. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax () The card slot would be recognized as a removable drive if you have a driver for this. In order...

drive. The drivers install ok and everything checks out in device manager when it is plugged in, but i am unable to read from or write to the disk as it does not appear anywhere as either an external or removeable drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

i have a lexmark jump drive, when I use it on my windows 2K machine R/W access is reasonably fast; however, when I use the same removable drive on my windows XP (home) computer, access to the drive is god aweful slow. Can this be fixed ? -- Woodzy...

bit calls for all programs accessing the drive to complete whatever reads/writes they need to as the drive will be removed. When all I/O is complete, the OS removes the drive from its list of usable drives and then pops up the bubble telling you it's safe to...

use up to 26 drive letters. Drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives, but you can assign these letters to removable drives if the computer does not have a floppy disk drive. Hard disk drives in the computer receive letters C through Z,...

you need to install drivers from some removable medium (NOT a hard drive). Up to XP, that medium HAD to be a floppy drive, but I think Vista has more options. You follow the intructions and supply the drivers and they are loaded and used for this session, but...