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RealGomer - 10 Oct 2007 19:07 GMT

I have a 32 MB USB flash drive that Device Manager sees as plain as day and
says the device is working properly. When I try to access the drive from My
Computer, Copy To, Move To, the drive doesn't appear. What next?

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Adam Leinss - 11 Oct 2007 15:06 GMT

> I have a 32 MB USB flash drive that Device Manager sees as plain
> as day and says the device is working properly. When I try to
> access the drive from My Computer, Copy To, Move To, the drive
> doesn't appear. What next?

Right-click on "My Computer", go to "Manage", then click on "Disk
Management". You should be able to assign a drive letter from there.

Adam

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RealGomer - 11 Oct 2007 19:48 GMT

I did as you suggested. Here's what comes up under properties:

Media
State: Idle
Identification: Type: Removable Media (read / Write)
Sequence #: 3
Location: Media Pool: Import\Removable media
On-line library: USB 2.0 (HS) Flash Disk USB Drive
Drive: Drive 0
Enable Media: Yes

Side
State: New
Side: 1 of 1
ID Label: Type: FAT32
Statistics: This side has never been mounted
This side has never been allocated

Could my external USB hard drive, which does show up plain as day, be
causing a problem?

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RealGomer - 11 Oct 2007 20:00 GMT

Solved the problem. WinXP is stealing my "J" drive, a networked laptop, and
assigning it to the flash drive. It isn't bothering to to show the correct
device name.

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Adam Leinss - 12 Oct 2007 00:02 GMT

> Solved the problem. WinXP is stealing my "J" drive, a networked
> laptop, and assigning it to the flash drive. It isn't bothering to
> to show the correct device name.

An "oh-so-common" problem, which, not surprisingly, still happens on my
Vista workstation at work with my external USB hard drive.

Go figure.

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RealGomer - 12 Oct 2007 21:36 GMT

It's just another feature from Microsoft, the world's most user friendly
software company.
Or as the tech support idiots say when we can't find find a record in their
database, "It's there, you just can't see it."

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Jon M - 27 Nov 2007 18:10 GMT

Mine has a simlar issue: Flash drive currently identified in Windows XP as
memory_card on ‘HP0018715d357’ (Z:) It's readable but shows icon as network
drive.
Any ideas on how to correct this? I don't think it always looked like this...

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