Hi, I saw a lot of people had this issue. Different users pluged in differnt USA jumpdrive and they can't see the USB shown in my computer. No error message appeared. If I loggin as Administrator and changed the drive letter to Z, the USB willl work. But most of my users don't have Administrative rights, they can't go to drive management in admin tools. What can I do? Thanks

You may be plugging it in the wrong USB port if you have more than one try a different one. That happens to me alot.

Without admin priviliges, the only thing I can suggest is disconnecting any network drives before plugging in the USB drive.... 1) Read here for info 2) MS info here

Thanks everyone, it sounds very good. I just found a way by typing G:\ in the address bar of My computer , to force the drive show up. It is visible. How do I know it is G, because that is the next available drive in my pc. By the way, we have a mapped network drive, it might be the problem too. But please give me more solution. Thanks all

Hi, I've found that my work computer which has several mapped networked drives cannot recognise any USB flash drive when it is plugged in normally, XP Pro XP2. What I did discover by chance though was that if I plug in any USB flash drive and then boot up normally when I get to work and start the machine up. I can then safely remove and re-insert the flash drives. ( up to three ) two on front ports and one on a 1 metre cable permanently plugged into a rear USB 2 port. I know it relates to mapped drives but cannot find a work round that I can use, without having admin rights. It is a minor PITA, but I simply plug in switch on and have no problems for the rest of the day. If I have to reboot for any reason. I do of course have to plug a flash drive in, or I will not be able to use one. hth Ceri

In a nutshell, when other network drives are on your computer - all you need to do is: Right Click on My Computer, Click on Manage, then Click on Disk Management; then right click the box to update the Removeable Disk Drive to an unused letter (since there are network drives attached, the computer is confused ....)