Suddenly , I dont know why, when I stick in any usb drive , stick or what evr, it is recognised by the system, the green harware remove symbol in the tray, but the drives are not shown in the explorer view, so they are not accessible at all for me.
I can access then from command line, the remove hardware knows them , also the hardware manager knws them as what they are, but I simply can not brows them.
XP SP2, german
what to do?
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Until You Find Out What Happened Try Going To The Address Bar In Windows Explore And Type In E: F: G: H: I: etc.... it might come up
Na na na, come on!
come up even with this.
I did meanwhile found that I have still some restore point of 3 days ago and restored this one and now it comes up again.
But something is still strange:
normaly when I did stick the usb in, a menu did come up asking what to do , presumably wanted execute the autorun.inf
But what ever I try, there is no action or menu popping up under XP so far.
Anybody knows where this is hiding, I mean the setting for it? Apparently all autorun actions might be stopped or so, but to set it on the properties od the drive itself has no reslut at all.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
lots of network drives?
Or only one?
Windows ignores the drive letters assigned to the network drives and sometimes assigns them again to your usb drive. That makes it impossible to get it displayed in explorer cause it always shows the network drive. To solve this, you have to manually change the drive letter (I think via Hardware manager).
That did the trick for me numerous times.
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In my office, we just installed novell software to access more remote drives, and it takes away the port I normally used for my usb key, as the software automatically claimed 5 letters. So I had to manually change the drive letter assigned to the usb port I always used to one that wouldn't get co-opted by the remote drives.
1. Make sure your usb key is plugged in.
2. Start to Control Panel to Administrative Tools
3. Computer Management to Services to Disk Management
4. Right-click on usb key and then choose to change the drive letter to one that is never used by your network drives.
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>Windows ignores the drive letters assigned to the network drives and sometimes assigns them again to your usb drive. That makes it impossible to get it displayed in explorer cause it always shows the network drive. To solve this, you have to manually change the drive letter (I think via Hardware manager).
1. Make sure your usb key is plugged in.
2. Start to Control Panel to Administrative Tools
3. Computer Management to Services to Disk Management
4. Right-click on usb key and then choose to change the drive letter to one that is never used by your network drives.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
If you haven't tried this already, from your CMD window, try
replacing d: with the drive letter that you can see in that CMD window. See if that does anything. Probably won't.
I think I recall that there are ways to hide drives from Explorer. Maybe it is that sort of thing.
MC