My home computer doesn't mount removable devices. It loads USB Mass Storage Device drivers, but I have to use Computer Management to mount them, and it mounts them as local disks, and I have to open them via CM because Explorer doesn't acknowledge their existence. It has no problem with my external HD.
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Mounting it then crashing explorer.exe via Task Manager?
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I can still use the drive, but it's not mounted correctly. I want it to mount it like it's supposed to.
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I'm sure I saw a KB article on this somewhere which said about some registry key.
Try Searching the KB site.
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Kim: Yes, thank you Santa, I am.
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
KB?
Vintage!
Microsoft Knowledge Base http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
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I found nothing.
I may call MS because the validation check doesn't work anymore either.
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How could you not know about the Knowledge Base?
I can't even install SP2 on my computer due to validation issues.
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Ryan McCue
Santa: Ho Ho Ho!
Kim: Yes, thank you Santa, I am.
(Kath and Kim)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I knew about it, but I just didn't have "KB" stored as an acronym in my brain.
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KB905226 Validation Check-ActiveX
This may not be your exact problem, but the irony...
According to this, an MS-required step (validation) is prevented by an MS-recommended security setting (Disable ActiveX Controls). ActiveX was, of course, developed by Microsoft. Furthermore, in this article, MS makes a point in telling you that enabling the ActiveX control can increase your security risk, as if it were merely a matter of choice, instead of being necessary to comply with their validation requirements!
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Arg! I did somthing like this when I was hacking my reg for the Zune. You ave to find the drives num or somthin like that and change the data value
I dug this thread up because I still have this issue. I searched the KB (again) and found nothing, and although I did manage to get validated, the autofix utility (which required validation to download) didn't solve the issue.
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If it were me, I would have reinstalled Windows. Chances are, at some point, you installed something or changed some random settings that's borked it. The easiest thing to do is to reinstall.
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I had a problem like this once. I could plug in my flash drive and Windows would recognize it (the good "bong" noise) but it wouldn't show up in My Computer or anything.
The way I fixed it was plugging in the drive and then opening up Device Manager. Under the "Disk Drives" section, my drive was shown with the name of the Flash Drive as the label (ex. Crucial Gizmo! secure USB Device). All I did was Right-Click on the flash drive and then Uninstall. Click "OK" and then unplug the device/plug it back in. Not sure if that's the case for you, but it worked for me.