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Old 07-04-2004, 08:33   #1
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Using USB drives - XP not recognising?

Hello, has anyone got any experience of & know a fix for why WinXp Pro will not assign a drive letter to (unbranded) USB drives?

When I plug them in (P3/700 - XP Pro SP2) they get recognised & appear in device manager, however they are not assigned a drive letter in my computer or IE, so I cannot find it.

I have looked on Google but can only find the same question & no fixes.
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Old 07-04-2004, 08:35   #2
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Do they apear is disk management ? If may be that you have a drive letter conflict and need to chnage your drive letters around a bit.

What usb drive is it ?
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Re: Using USB drives - XP not recognising?

maybe u need to format it first in diskmanagment ...
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Re: Using USB drives - XP not recognising?

Thats exactly what it was ta, I came back here to say its sorted, I had a mapped G: drive already, which it was set to (weird?).
Set it to O: (next available) and all is fine.
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Glad its sorted
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