Guest Tonder Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Rey Santos Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 RE: Portable Stick Try this: RightclicK on My Computer > Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager button. Expand Disk drives > Double click Generic USB MS Reader USB Device > On General Tab > (On the lowest part) Device Usage : Use this device (enable) should be selected or you can troubleshoot from there. -- Rey "Tonder" wrote: > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Tonder Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 RE: Portable Stick You did a great job of navigating me to the troubleshoot level, it shows that yes the stick is working in good order, identifies the name of the product. Ran the wizard and it downloaded a driver date 2001 which seemed a little early for a driver to run a stick. But after reboot, the stick USB stick still is not in the directory. Sigh. "Rey Santos" wrote: > Try this: > RightclicK on My Computer > Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager > button. Expand Disk drives > Double click Generic USB MS Reader USB Device > > On General Tab > (On the lowest part) Device Usage : Use this device > (enable) should be selected or you can troubleshoot from there. > -- > Rey > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they > > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently > > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed > > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Rey Santos Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 RE: Portable Stick Does it show at My Computer? You will also be able to see information the Control panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > under Storage > Removable storage > Libraries. Right click the MS reader > Properties > General tab, the Enable drive shoiuld have a check mark. On the Device information tab does it have a Drive letter: assignment? Also at Control panel > Portable media devices. If the devices were showing and memory stick inserted, Right click > Explore. Windows explorer should launch. Quote: "And yes, I recently did a clean up of unused programs on the computer." Have you tried Restore? -- Rey "Tonder" wrote: > You did a great job of navigating me to the troubleshoot level, it shows that > yes the stick is working in good order, identifies the name of the product. > Ran the wizard and it downloaded a driver date 2001 which seemed a little > early for a driver to run a stick. But after reboot, the stick USB stick > still is not in the directory. Sigh. > > "Rey Santos" wrote: > > > Try this: > > RightclicK on My Computer > Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager > > button. Expand Disk drives > Double click Generic USB MS Reader USB Device > > > On General Tab > (On the lowest part) Device Usage : Use this device > > (enable) should be selected or you can troubleshoot from there. > > -- > > Rey > > > > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > > > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they > > > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently > > > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed > > > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Jim Snively Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Portable Stick Do you have mapped drives that might use the same drive letter as the data stick? Go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management to see. There you can change the drive letter to an unused one so the data stick shows up in Windows Explorer. My problem is that I have to map the drive letter each time I insert a data stick and am looking for a more permanent drive letter mapping solution. Jim Snively "Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:80ED2FF3-F3B6-4673-8A7C-8078EC443498@microsoft.com... > Does it show at My Computer? > > You will also be able to see information the Control panel > > Administrative > tools > Computer management > under Storage > Removable storage > > Libraries. > Right click the MS reader > Properties > General tab, the Enable drive > shoiuld have a check mark. On the Device information tab does it have a > Drive > letter: assignment? > > Also at Control panel > Portable media devices. If the devices were > showing > and memory stick inserted, Right click > Explore. Windows explorer should > launch. > > Quote: "And yes, I recently did a clean up of unused programs on the > computer." > Have you tried Restore? > -- > Rey > > > "Tonder" wrote: > >> You did a great job of navigating me to the troubleshoot level, it shows >> that >> yes the stick is working in good order, identifies the name of the >> product. >> Ran the wizard and it downloaded a driver date 2001 which seemed a little >> early for a driver to run a stick. But after reboot, the stick USB stick >> still is not in the directory. Sigh. >> >> "Rey Santos" wrote: >> >> > Try this: >> > RightclicK on My Computer > Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager >> > button. Expand Disk drives > Double click Generic USB MS Reader USB >> > Device > >> > On General Tab > (On the lowest part) Device Usage : Use this device >> > (enable) should be selected or you can troubleshoot from there. >> > -- >> > Rey >> > >> > >> > "Tonder" wrote: >> > >> > > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, >> > > but they >> > > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I >> > > recently >> > > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and >> > > removed >> > > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Tonder Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 RE: Portable Stick Excellent Rey. As soon as I saw it was on Drive 0 after going thru your protocol I knew that a couple days ago when I went through Tweak I had unchecked all the supposedly "unused" Disk Drive labels, including E. When I went back to Tweak I PUT A CHECK IN EACH drive box, and as you know my stick magically appeared. Offda! Thanks also Jim. "Rey Santos" wrote: > Does it show at My Computer? > > You will also be able to see information the Control panel > Administrative > tools > Computer management > under Storage > Removable storage > Libraries. > Right click the MS reader > Properties > General tab, the Enable drive > shoiuld have a check mark. On the Device information tab does it have a Drive > letter: assignment? > > Also at Control panel > Portable media devices. If the devices were showing > and memory stick inserted, Right click > Explore. Windows explorer should > launch. > > Quote: "And yes, I recently did a clean up of unused programs on the > computer." > Have you tried Restore? > -- > Rey > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > You did a great job of navigating me to the troubleshoot level, it shows that > > yes the stick is working in good order, identifies the name of the product. > > Ran the wizard and it downloaded a driver date 2001 which seemed a little > > early for a driver to run a stick. But after reboot, the stick USB stick > > still is not in the directory. Sigh. > > > > "Rey Santos" wrote: > > > > > Try this: > > > RightclicK on My Computer > Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager > > > button. Expand Disk drives > Double click Generic USB MS Reader USB Device > > > > On General Tab > (On the lowest part) Device Usage : Use this device > > > (enable) should be selected or you can troubleshoot from there. > > > -- > > > Rey > > > > > > > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > > > > > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they > > > > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently > > > > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed > > > > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Uwe Sieber Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Portable Stick Jim Snively wrote: > Do you have mapped drives that might use the same drive letter as the data > stick? Go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management to see. There > you can change the drive letter to an unused one so the data stick shows up > in Windows Explorer. > > My problem is that I have to map the drive letter each time I insert a data > stick and am looking for a more permanent drive letter mapping solution. I've made a software for this: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html Greetings from Germany Uwe
Guest Tonder Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Portable Stick That's a good catch to watch out for Uwe. "Uwe Sieber" wrote: > Jim Snively wrote: > > Do you have mapped drives that might use the same drive letter as the data > > stick? Go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management to see. There > > you can change the drive letter to an unused one so the data stick shows up > > in Windows Explorer. > > > > My problem is that I have to map the drive letter each time I insert a data > > stick and am looking for a more permanent drive letter mapping solution. > > > I've made a software for this: > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html > > > Greetings from Germany > > Uwe >
Guest Jim Snively Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Portable Stick I saw your software but was wondering why it is necessary. On some of my machines once I change a drive letter the system remembers it the next time I load the data stick. On the newest system it doesn't seem to. I found anothe site that suggested mapping the data stick to a folder the get drive letters to persist. I'm trying that first. Jim Snively "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message news:5hbqapF3jj89cU1@mid.individual.net... > Jim Snively wrote: >> Do you have mapped drives that might use the same drive letter as the >> data stick? Go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management to >> see. There you can change the drive letter to an unused one so the data >> stick shows up in Windows Explorer. >> >> My problem is that I have to map the drive letter each time I insert a >> data stick and am looking for a more permanent drive letter mapping >> solution. > > > I've made a software for this: > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html > > > Greetings from Germany > > Uwe
Guest Rey Santos Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 RE: Portable Stick My next idea is that of Jim the reason I asked if the drive has a letter assignment, then it could be changed. Clearly you were able to analize each post, congratulations! -- Rey "Tonder" wrote: > Excellent Rey. As soon as I saw it was on Drive 0 after going thru your > protocol I knew that a couple days ago when I went through Tweak I had > unchecked all the supposedly "unused" Disk Drive labels, including E. When I > went back to Tweak I PUT A CHECK IN EACH drive box, and as you know my stick > magically appeared. Offda! Thanks also Jim. > > "Rey Santos" wrote: > > > Does it show at My Computer? > > > > You will also be able to see information the Control panel > Administrative > > tools > Computer management > under Storage > Removable storage > Libraries. > > Right click the MS reader > Properties > General tab, the Enable drive > > shoiuld have a check mark. On the Device information tab does it have a Drive > > letter: assignment? > > > > Also at Control panel > Portable media devices. If the devices were showing > > and memory stick inserted, Right click > Explore. Windows explorer should > > launch. > > > > Quote: "And yes, I recently did a clean up of unused programs on the > > computer." > > Have you tried Restore? > > -- > > Rey > > > > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > > > You did a great job of navigating me to the troubleshoot level, it shows that > > > yes the stick is working in good order, identifies the name of the product. > > > Ran the wizard and it downloaded a driver date 2001 which seemed a little > > > early for a driver to run a stick. But after reboot, the stick USB stick > > > still is not in the directory. Sigh. > > > > > > "Rey Santos" wrote: > > > > > > > Try this: > > > > RightclicK on My Computer > Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager > > > > button. Expand Disk drives > Double click Generic USB MS Reader USB Device > > > > > On General Tab > (On the lowest part) Device Usage : Use this device > > > > (enable) should be selected or you can troubleshoot from there. > > > > -- > > > > Rey > > > > > > > > > > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > > > > > > > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they > > > > > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently > > > > > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed > > > > > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Uwe Sieber Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Portable Stick Windows saves letter assignments, but exactely one assigment per letter only. Sample: Drive1 is connected and you assign letter X. Then you disconnect it. When you attach it again it gets letter X again because Windows saved this assignment. Disconnect it again, attach Drive2 and assign letter X, detach it and attach Drive1 again. Drive1 get the the first free local letter now beause the previous assingment has been superseded by Drive2. Therefore there is always a rivalry for the first availlable local letter. The best solution is to assign one 'high' letter per USB drive, far away from the first availlable one and away from network drives too. Then no additional software is required. Greeting from Germany Uwe Jim Snively wrote: > I saw your software but was wondering why it is necessary. On some of my > machines once I change a drive letter the system remembers it the next time > I load the data stick. On the newest system it doesn't seem to. I found > anothe site that suggested mapping the data stick to a folder the get drive > letters to persist. I'm trying that first. > > Jim Snively > > "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message > news:5hbqapF3jj89cU1@mid.individual.net... >> Jim Snively wrote: >>> Do you have mapped drives that might use the same drive letter as the >>> data stick? Go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management to >>> see. There you can change the drive letter to an unused one so the data >>> stick shows up in Windows Explorer. >>> >>> My problem is that I have to map the drive letter each time I insert a >>> data stick and am looking for a more permanent drive letter mapping >>> solution. >> >> I've made a software for this: >> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html >> >> >> Greetings from Germany >> >> Uwe > >
Guest Jim Snively Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: Portable Stick Uwe, Our situation is this -- c: hdd d: cd e: network drive #1 f: network drive #2 g: network drive #3 usb drive gets mapped to e: I use disk management to change it to h: Two identical data sticks are used to backup and restore Quickbooks data shared between a client user and an accountant. Two sticks provide for redundancy in case one goes bad. On the old machine (a 4 year old XP Home notebook) the h: mapping was remembered. The new machine (an XP Professional tower) does not remember the h: mapping. The use of disk management to remap e: to h: is too complicated for the accountant as would be changing between h: and i. Does something get written to the usb drive or is there some unique drive identifier that windows uses to associate drive letter mappings? Maybe I should download and use your software. Jim Snively "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message news:5hdv1hF3jkob0U1@mid.individual.net... > > Windows saves letter assignments, but exactely one assigment > per letter only. > Sample: Drive1 is connected and you assign letter X. Then you > disconnect it. When you attach it again it gets letter X again > because Windows saved this assignment. Disconnect it again, > attach Drive2 and assign letter X, detach it and attach > Drive1 again. Drive1 get the the first free local letter now > beause the previous assingment has been superseded by Drive2. > > Therefore there is always a rivalry for the first availlable > local letter. > > The best solution is to assign one 'high' letter per USB drive, > far away from the first availlable one and away from network > drives too. Then no additional software is required. > > > Greeting from Germany > > Uwe > > > > Jim Snively wrote: >> I saw your software but was wondering why it is necessary. On some of my >> machines once I change a drive letter the system remembers it the next >> time I load the data stick. On the newest system it doesn't seem to. I >> found anothe site that suggested mapping the data stick to a folder the >> get drive letters to persist. I'm trying that first. >> >> Jim Snively >> >> "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message >> news:5hbqapF3jj89cU1@mid.individual.net... >>> Jim Snively wrote: >>>> Do you have mapped drives that might use the same drive letter as the >>>> data stick? Go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management to >>>> see. There you can change the drive letter to an unused one so the >>>> data stick shows up in Windows Explorer. >>>> >>>> My problem is that I have to map the drive letter each time I insert a >>>> data stick and am looking for a more permanent drive letter mapping >>>> solution. >>> >>> I've made a software for this: >>> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html >>> >>> >>> Greetings from Germany >>> >>> Uwe >>
Guest Uwe Sieber Posted August 3, 2007 Posted August 3, 2007 Re: Portable Stick Are you sure that the old machine wasn't running under Windows 2000? Here network drive where global object and therefore seen by the mount manager. So, H: is seen then as first availlable letter. I confess, I've tested an XP Home, but I'm quite sure that it does not handle drive letter assignments different from XP Pro. And Microsoft says that the 'problem' applies to all XP versions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/82821 Greetings from Germany Uwe Jim Snively wrote: > Uwe, > > Our situation is this -- > c: hdd > d: cd > e: network drive #1 > f: network drive #2 > g: network drive #3 > usb drive gets mapped to e: > > I use disk management to change it to h: > Two identical data sticks are used to backup and restore Quickbooks data > shared between a client user and an accountant. Two sticks provide for > redundancy in case one goes bad. > > On the old machine (a 4 year old XP Home notebook) the h: mapping was > remembered. The new machine (an XP Professional tower) does not remember > the h: mapping. The use of disk management to remap e: to h: is too > complicated for the accountant as would be changing between h: and i. > > Does something get written to the usb drive or is there some unique drive > identifier that windows uses to associate drive letter mappings? > > Maybe I should download and use your software. > > Jim Snively > > "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message > news:5hdv1hF3jkob0U1@mid.individual.net... >> Windows saves letter assignments, but exactely one assigment >> per letter only. >> Sample: Drive1 is connected and you assign letter X. Then you >> disconnect it. When you attach it again it gets letter X again >> because Windows saved this assignment. Disconnect it again, >> attach Drive2 and assign letter X, detach it and attach >> Drive1 again. Drive1 get the the first free local letter now >> beause the previous assingment has been superseded by Drive2. >> >> Therefore there is always a rivalry for the first availlable >> local letter. >> >> The best solution is to assign one 'high' letter per USB drive, >> far away from the first availlable one and away from network >> drives too. Then no additional software is required. >> >> >> Greeting from Germany >> >> Uwe >> >> >> >> Jim Snively wrote: >>> I saw your software but was wondering why it is necessary. On some of my >>> machines once I change a drive letter the system remembers it the next >>> time I load the data stick. On the newest system it doesn't seem to. I >>> found anothe site that suggested mapping the data stick to a folder the >>> get drive letters to persist. I'm trying that first. >>> >>> Jim Snively >>> >>> "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote in message >>> news:5hbqapF3jj89cU1@mid.individual.net... >>>> Jim Snively wrote: >>>>> Do you have mapped drives that might use the same drive letter as the >>>>> data stick? Go to Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management to >>>>> see. There you can change the drive letter to an unused one so the >>>>> data stick shows up in Windows Explorer. >>>>> >>>>> My problem is that I have to map the drive letter each time I insert a >>>>> data stick and am looking for a more permanent drive letter mapping >>>>> solution. >>>> I've made a software for this: >>>> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html >>>> >>>> >>>> Greetings from Germany >>>> >>>> Uwe >
Guest Tonder Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 RE: Portable Stick Now related to all this about getting the drives to show for portable stick, I see that the cd/dvd player does not show up on the Explore List. I reckon it has to do with the drive letter not showing up...the diagnositic says the player is installed properly. When go to Computer Management - Device Manager the player is listed, but it has a yellow exclamation mark. What say all? Regards, Tonder ==== "Rey Santos" wrote: > My next idea is that of Jim the reason I asked if the drive has a letter > assignment, then it could be changed. Clearly you were able to analize each > post, congratulations! > -- > Rey > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > Excellent Rey. As soon as I saw it was on Drive 0 after going thru your > > protocol I knew that a couple days ago when I went through Tweak I had > > unchecked all the supposedly "unused" Disk Drive labels, including E. When I > > went back to Tweak I PUT A CHECK IN EACH drive box, and as you know my stick > > magically appeared. Offda! Thanks also Jim. > > > > "Rey Santos" wrote: > > > > > Does it show at My Computer? > > > > > > You will also be able to see information the Control panel > Administrative > > > tools > Computer management > under Storage > Removable storage > Libraries. > > > Right click the MS reader > Properties > General tab, the Enable drive > > > shoiuld have a check mark. On the Device information tab does it have a Drive > > > letter: assignment? > > > > > > Also at Control panel > Portable media devices. If the devices were showing > > > and memory stick inserted, Right click > Explore. Windows explorer should > > > launch. > > > > > > Quote: "And yes, I recently did a clean up of unused programs on the > > > computer." > > > Have you tried Restore? > > > -- > > > Rey > > > > > > > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > > > > > You did a great job of navigating me to the troubleshoot level, it shows that > > > > yes the stick is working in good order, identifies the name of the product. > > > > Ran the wizard and it downloaded a driver date 2001 which seemed a little > > > > early for a driver to run a stick. But after reboot, the stick USB stick > > > > still is not in the directory. Sigh. > > > > > > > > "Rey Santos" wrote: > > > > > > > > > Try this: > > > > > RightclicK on My Computer > Properties > Hardware Tab > Device Manager > > > > > button. Expand Disk drives > Double click Generic USB MS Reader USB Device > > > > > > On General Tab > (On the lowest part) Device Usage : Use this device > > > > > (enable) should be selected or you can troubleshoot from there. > > > > > -- > > > > > Rey > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Tonder" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they > > > > > > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently > > > > > > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed > > > > > > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
Guest Tonder Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 RE: Portable Stick Using Tweak UI: My Computer, Drives, see that all drives are checked. "Tonder" wrote: > My 1gb and 2gb memory sticks are showing power in my Compaq laptop, but they > do not appear in my Explore/file list. They did before. And yes, I recently > did a clean up of unused programs on the computer. Was I dumb and removed > something that I need to read the dopey stick?
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