Thumb Drive Issues

[Guest Starfish]

Hello, I have a client running Windows XP Pro SP2. We just swapped his PC and

now he can't get any of his thumb drives to be recognized. He has three thumb

drives that showed up fine on the old PC. I think they had random drive

letters like I:\. His current PC has C and D used by the hard drive, E:\ by

the CDROM and F:\ G:\ M:\ R:\ S:\ by mapped drives. I moved the CDROM to

drive Z which allowed one thumb drive to grab drive E:\. However, I still

can't get the other 2 thumb drives to show up. I already applied a patch from

Microsoft that seemed like it addressed this issue - but it didn't. The patch

was from KB297694. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest AlmostBob]

Re: Thumb Drive Issues

 

I can set available drive letters with tweakuixp

perhaps the inaccessible drive letters have been disabled, with tweakuixp

 

 

--

Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de

spybot http://www.safer-networking.org

AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com

Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/

Catalog of removal tools (1)

http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/

Catalog of removal tools (2)

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?CID=40387

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use

 

Grateful thanks to the authors and webmasters

_

 

"Starfish" <Starfish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:9ECC307E-5682-4A6D-A5A9-4B84268822B7@microsoft.com...

> Hello, I have a client running Windows XP Pro SP2. We just swapped his PC

> and

> now he can't get any of his thumb drives to be recognized. He has three

> thumb

> drives that showed up fine on the old PC. I think they had random drive

> letters like I:\. His current PC has C and D used by the hard drive, E:\

> by

> the CDROM and F:\ G:\ M:\ R:\ S:\ by mapped drives. I moved the CDROM to

> drive Z which allowed one thumb drive to grab drive E:\. However, I still

> can't get the other 2 thumb drives to show up. I already applied a patch

> from

> Microsoft that seemed like it addressed this issue - but it didn't. The

> patch

> was from KB297694. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest smlunatick]

Re: Thumb Drive Issues

 

On Oct 30, 6:13 pm, Starfish <Starf...@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote:

> Hello, I have a client running Windows XP Pro SP2. We just swapped his PC and

> now he can't get any of his thumb drives to be recognized. He has three thumb

> drives that showed up fine on the old PC. I think they had random drive

> letters like I:\. His current PC has C and D used by the hard drive, E:\ by

> the CDROM and F:\ G:\ M:\ R:\ S:\ by mapped drives. I moved the CDROM to

> drive Z which allowed one thumb drive to grab drive E:\. However, I still

> can't get the other 2 thumb drives to show up. I already applied a patch from

> Microsoft that seemed like it addressed this issue - but it didn't. The patch

> was from KB297694. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Look for USBDLM.