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Steve Wade - 22 May 2006 20:32 GMT

Hi guys,

Have an interesting problem after installing a USB Mass-storage device on
98se system - installation went well BUT...

The problem is that in My Computer each partition on the drive gets shown
twice and each gets its own letter.

Any ideas?

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Ron Badour - 22 May 2006 21:43 GMT

How big is the storage device? Run scandisk and see what happens.

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Steve Wade - 22 May 2006 22:41 GMT

> How big is the storage device? Run scandisk and see what happens.

I just bought a caddie and it has happened with various old HD's varying
from 2-6gb, which I wanted to check out before selling on or donating - I
assume that it is not a size issue. I formatted them and scandisked them, so
to give a fresh start and an empty drive.

No such problem on an XP set-up.

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Jeff Richards - 23 May 2006 10:21 GMT

Does the device appear more than once in Device Manager?

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Steve Wade - 23 May 2006 18:23 GMT

> Does the device appear more than once in Device Manager?

Ahaaa!

I notice that I have two sets of USB drivers shown in device manager - could
this be the problem?

Removing one lot seemed to do it.

Thanks!

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Jeff Richards - 26 May 2006 10:50 GMT

Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out.

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