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Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 08-08-2004, 03:24 PM:

When I plug in a USB Jump drive to my USB port, it shows up in the 'Safely Remove Hardware' window, but it dosn't appear in the regular Explorer window. I'm using WinXP home with a laptop. Any ideas?

I followed the Windows 'troubleshooter'; god, what a waste. Every problem ends up with 'Windows can not resolve your problem...'

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 08-08-2004, 03:46 PM:

I haven't used XP Home, but if its anything like 2k and XP Pro, it sounds like the device hasn't been assigned a drive letter. Right-click 'My Computer', select Manage, then Disk Management. Since the hardware has been detected, the physical drive should be there, no device driver needs to be loaded for this thing to be seen as a disk. You should then be able to choose a drive letter to assign to this device.

Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 08-08-2004, 10:17 PM:

I had the same problem, sort of.

When you install a flash drive, it appears to want the next drive letter after the physical drives.

So a two partition drive, and a CD would be C:, D:, and E:. The drive would want to take F: as that is next physical drive letter. If you happen to have mapped drives, then it may be conflicting with mapped drive.

Get to Disk Management and see if you can see the removeable drive. Right Click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management.

Paul