Portable Stick

[Guest Tonder]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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?