sp3/usb problems

[Guest Ed Mc]

Since upgrading to sp3 I've had numerous problems with usb

ports. I used one to plug in a Firelite external drive. It would show

up as removable drive I:. I uninstalled sp3. I'm back to sp2, but now

my external drive does not show up in My Computer. A check of Tweakui

shows many of the available drive letters having a red dot with a

question mark inside. Drive I: is one of them. Any ideas what the dots

mean? Since I use this external drive to backup my system I'm in a bit

of a panic! I used Device Mgr. to remove the usb ports and then they

reinstalled on the next boot. Any help please!! TIA

[Guest Ed Mc]

Re: sp3/usb problems

 

Ed Mc wrote:

> Since upgrading to sp3 I've had numerous problems with usb ports.

> I used one to plug in a Firelite external drive. It would show up as

> removable drive I:. I uninstalled sp3. I'm back to sp2, but now my

> external drive does not show up in My Computer. A check of Tweakui shows

> many of the available drive letters having a red dot with a question

> mark inside. Drive I: is one of them. Any ideas what the dots mean?

> Since I use this external drive to backup my system I'm in a bit of a

> panic! I used Device Mgr. to remove the usb ports and then they

> reinstalled on the next boot. Any help please!! TIA

I may be on to something here.... I ran Partition Magic and can

see the Firelite external drive. It says the partition is hidden. If I

unhide it will it then show up in My Computer? If not can I reverse

the unhidden process? I guess what I'm asking is "is the drive

supposed to be hidden? TIA

[Guest Ron Badour]

Re: sp3/usb problems

 

Ed,

 

On my XP MCE system with Tweak UI installed, all the drive boxes are marked

and the ones with a red dot are partitions that do not exist on my machine.

I have multiple partitions and a DVD and CDRW--all are marked and no red

dot. I don't have an external hard drive.

 

You should be able to hide and unhide partitions (drives) at will using PM

with no adverse effects. I don't believe the drive should be hidden--how

could you use it otherwise? I can recall having two hard drives in a PC

several years ago with W98 and W98SE on one hard drive and Win 95 and Win

95b on the other. I used either PM or BootIt NG (forget which one) to hide

the hard drive that was not being used.

--

Regards

 

Ron Badour

MS MVP Shell User

 

 

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> Ed Mc wrote:

>> Since upgrading to sp3 I've had numerous problems with usb ports. I

>> used one to plug in a Firelite external drive. It would show up as

>> removable drive I:. I uninstalled sp3. I'm back to sp2, but now my

>> external drive does not show up in My Computer. A check of Tweakui shows

>> many of the available drive letters having a red dot with a question mark

>> inside. Drive I: is one of them. Any ideas what the dots mean? Since I

>> use this external drive to backup my system I'm in a bit of a panic! I

>> used Device Mgr. to remove the usb ports and then they reinstalled on the

>> next boot. Any help please!! TIA

> I may be on to something here.... I ran Partition Magic and can see

> the Firelite external drive. It says the partition is hidden. If I unhide

> it will it then show up in My Computer? If not can I reverse the unhidden

> process? I guess what I'm asking is "is the drive supposed to be hidden?

> TIA