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Jimmie Brown
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Fayetteville, NC, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2007 5:28 pm |
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I purchased a USB Ativa flash drive pluged in the port and opened the windows and can't see where it is located.
Can you tell me what i'm doing wrong.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 17 Sep 2007 5:35 pm
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What operating system do you have? XP and Vista have built in drivers. If you have Win98/ME you will need drivers for the drive, and depending on the drive many of them do not have drivers available.
If the flash drive was detected and "installed" you should be able to see the drive in the Windows Explorer. If will have a drive letter and should be identified as a USB drive. |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 17 Sep 2007 8:04 pm
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| Jack Stoner wrote: |
| If the flash drive was detected and "installed" you should be able to see the drive in the Windows Explorer. If will have a drive letter and should be identified as a USB drive. |
Not necessarily so Jack! I went through this very situation this Winter, when a customer had me transfer a program from a computer in one office - to one in another office. For reasons not obvious at the moment, despite hearing the Microsoft "Kerlunk" noise (plugged in USB device recognized) in the speakers, it was nowhere to be found in My Computer! I tried it in other computers and it appeared instantly. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
After going back to the computer that wouldn't display an icon I looked in My Computer and saw that drives D and E were assigned to the CD player and CD burner. Drive F was assigned to a network resource. Additionally, a bunch of drive letters were assigned to media card slots, for the front panel media inputs. They occupied drives G through K.
I played a hunch and used Disk Management to reassign the drive letters for the media plug-in devices, then tried again with the flashdrive. Bingo! Drive G was assigned to it. It seems that Windows will not assign a drive letter above a media slot interface; only below it. It couldn't use drive D, or E, which were set to the CD drives and Network Drive F was set in stone and was sacred. Drive F would be the letter given to a Flashdrive, had it not already existed as a mapped drive.
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Jimmie Brown
From:
Fayetteville, NC, USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2007 5:56 am flash drive
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Jack i do have windows XP
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2007 7:56 am
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| Wiz Feinberg wrote: |
| It seems that Windows will not assign a drive letter above a media slot interface; only below it. |
I don't have that problem on my PC (Hewlett-Packard Media Center from late 2005, Windows XP.) The 4 media slots are H: I: J: K: yet I routinely connect and disconnect a USB drive which shows up as L: |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 18 Sep 2007 12:50 pm
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
| Wiz Feinberg wrote: |
| It seems that Windows will not assign a drive letter above a media slot interface; only below it. |
I don't have that problem on my PC (Hewlett-Packard Media Center from late 2005, Windows XP.) The 4 media slots are H: I: J: K: yet I routinely connect and disconnect a USB drive which shows up as L: |
Earnest;
You had better luck than me.
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Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 18 Sep 2007 2:37 pm
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On mine(XPpro) I open my computer, and there it is,(it's the drive that wasn't there before) also the same when I download pics with a card reader...BF
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