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On 02/02/2012 11:14, paul sutton wrote:
One thought that occurs is that Windows is assigning the same drive letter to the USB drive when you plug it in as you're already using for another (possibly network) drive. It won't see the USB drive then for love, money or threats of physical violence. THAT I have seen in Windows and it's a pain in the proverbial. Go into Disk Management and you should see all the physical disks Windows recognises. The USB if there will doubtless have been assigned a drive letter you're already using. Change it to the next available one and close Disk Manager. You should then see your USB drive in Windows Explorer, and Windows will actually remember the right drive letter for next time.On 02/02/12 09:55, Dan Dart wrote:Did it occur to you that windoze purposely doesn't recognise anything but the first partition in a USB disk... ... and won't offer to make a new FS on blank media? If anything, you'd be lucky to see it in disk management. XP I'm assuming? That's all I know that hates these disks.I have XP pro and it sees my verbatim usb hard disk no problem, Paul
For example my Windows box uses drive letters C-H, and if I put a USB stick in it doesn't recognise, chances are it may give it the letter H. However I have told it (since this first happened) to assign letter I to USB drives. No more problem :)
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