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Iomega USB drive not in My Computer
Name: jdiesel Date: July 7, 2007 at 06:55:40 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: Intel Product: dell 3100
Comment:
I have an Iomega CD-RW USB drive that I am trying to use with A Dell Dimension 3100. When I plug in the USB, the drive is not assigned a drive letter in My Computer. It does show up in device manager. I tried a thumb drive in the same ports and that works fine.
Name: jdiesel Date: July 7, 2007 at 07:16:21 Pacific
Reply:
OK, it gets strange now. I have a DVD drive on another PC that is shared by the PC I am trying to hook the USB drive to. When I have the USB drive hooked up and open the shared DVD drive, it opens the USB drive contents. If I have a DVD in the shared drive and none in the USB drive, I get an error. If I unplug the USB drive, the shared DVD drive opens fine.
It looks as if the PC is assigning the USB drive the same drive letter as the shared drive.
"So I have that going for me....Which is nice"
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Response Number 2
Name: Petit Jean Date: July 7, 2007 at 07:21:29 Pacific
Reply:
https://iomega-na-en.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/iomega_na_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=747 This is a detailed Iomega troubleshooting guide for USB drives like yours.
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Response Number 3
Name: max00 Date: July 7, 2007 at 09:24:28 Pacific
Reply:
Right click My Computer and select 'manage'. Select 'Disk Management' in the next screen. Find your drive and try changing the drive letter.
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