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Drive letter not assigned with USB
Name: Brytowski Date: March 26, 2006 at 12:05:27 Pacific OS: Windows XP sp2 CPU/Ram: 3.0ghz P4/4ghz Ram Product: Custom
Comment:
I have an AMS venus 3 external enclosure, I have recently had a problem with a specific drive, when I connect it (USB 2.0 or 1.1) it recognizes the drive, gives me the drive information but does not assign the drive a letter. I have gone into Device manager and it also shows that there is a drive there. I have tried reconnecting and rebooting the drive but to no avail...anyone have any ideas that would help?
Name: steigrafx Date: March 26, 2006 at 12:16:46 Pacific
Reply:
Following up on Sabertooth's comment...
XP may be assigning the drive a letter that is already in use. Use Disk Management to change the drive letter to one that is available. A similar condition occurs with USB memory sticks if there is a mapped network drive -- the USB stick is assigned the same letter as the first mapped network drive and doesn't appear anywhere.
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Response Number 3
Name: Brytowski Date: March 26, 2006 at 14:22:16 Pacific
Reply:
I checked in Device management and it does not show up there either, I cannot reassign a drive letter to it there, yes it WAS formatted as per the last use of it...there is (was) data on this disk that needed to be recovered (the disk was having some issues and windows was not booting correctly it was crashing right before the desktop with no error) this may be a case of lost data....thanks for the quick responses
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