My school computers won't recognize multiple flash drives/external hard Drives. All the computers are running windows xp profesional. I'm not shure but is it a problem with profesional or my schools computers? I don't have pro so I cant test this theory. Can any one help me?
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Does The flash drive fit snuggly in to the slot?
Does The Flash drive work on other computers? (even xp home)
And...
Try Restarting the computer then plug the flash drive in.
Hope This Helps
Morgan
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My uni first didn't have this problem, then did, and now doesn't again. They disabled all but one additional drive letters (exceptions were the hard drives, optical drive and network drives, etc). So when a second USB device was pluged in, it was detected by windows, but no driver letter assigned. And if you plugged one in, and then swapped it with the second, it still didn't work. And if you have a card reader, than not a hope! Now they have this stupid little program that detects the first driver letter in use, and changes it to something else (ie. from E to R).
My advice is: get as many people as you can to complain to the tech support about this, in an attempt to get them to rectify this problem.
regards,
Peter
I will try to bother the tech support at my school enough to change this but i think it is actually the school system tech people who made this a problem.
do you know any way to get around this, a hack or something?
Thanks again
Flash drives all show up as a single drive letter. So, what's the problem?
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The way my uni system was set up, you couldn't access the second drive if you plugged two in, nor could you access the second drive you plugged in if you swapped them(ie. plug in A, then remove A and plug in B, you can't access B even though windows detects). And if you had a card reader, it would only pick up the first slot, not nessicarily the one you wanted to use.
Yeah, but who carries two drives that need to both be plugged in? That's pretty rare, I'd say. And card reader-wise, the only one I'd carry around at Uni is a nice small single-slot one. Those multis are a bit big.
Granted, when I was at uni... we carried around 3.5" floppies
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You have some files that you want to transfer to someone else's USB?
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I have a bunch of files i often try to transfer to other peoples drives. And sometimes use two drives one as a backup for the other. This makes it a pain to backup the data.
I do. One for "normal" day to day, the other for testing (betas & such).
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too, I have one with my normal stuff on it and another that I am trying some interesting stuff out on (no I'm not telling you anything, but if it works you'll love it.).
Yours
Steve Lamerton
If you do, they may be conflicting with your flash drive. Go into Disk Management (if you can) and manually assign a drive letter to your USB drive. Or you can try disconnecting your mapped drives before you plug your flash drive in.