Re: Removable PnP Drive problem

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
click on Disk Management. The removable device will appear on the right
hand side of the screen and you must assign the drive letter.
--
Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com

"Robert Caldecott" > wrote in message
...
>I am experiencing a highly annoying problem on my Dell
> 8100 laptop running XP SP1. Whenever I plug in a device
> that creates a new drive letter (USB camera, USB keyfob
> drive, FireWire drive, etc.) Windows appears to see it -
> the device appears in the "Safely Remove..." taskbar menu
> and the machine beeps, but the new drive letter doesn't
> appear in My Computer. In order to make the drive
> accessible I have to reboot my laptop with the device
> connected. Note also that if I plug in one of these
> devices when Windows has started, any attempt to shut
> down results in a hang (looks like in RUNDLL32).
>
> Anyone seen this before?

[Robert Caldecott]

I tried this and the drive I tested shows up correctly as
drive E: in Disk Management. Curiously if I attempt to
change the drive letter, then the Manage app will hang
(MMC.EXE is hanging).

>-----Original Message-----
>Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the
following screen,
>click on Disk Management. The removable device will
appear on the right
>hand side of the screen and you must assign the drive
letter.
>--
>Cari
>MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
>www.coribright.com
>
>"Robert Caldecott" >
wrote in message
...
>>I am experiencing a highly annoying problem on my Dell
>> 8100 laptop running XP SP1. Whenever I plug in a
device
>> that creates a new drive letter (USB camera, USB keyfob
>> drive, FireWire drive, etc.) Windows appears to see
it -
>> the device appears in the "Safely Remove..." taskbar
menu
>> and the machine beeps, but the new drive letter doesn't
>> appear in My Computer. In order to make the drive
>> accessible I have to reboot my laptop with the device
>> connected. Note also that if I plug in one of these
>> devices when Windows has started, any attempt to shut
>> down results in a hang (looks like in RUNDLL32).
>>
>> Anyone seen this before?
>
>
>.
>

[Peter Hutchison]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 06:34:03 -0700, "Robert Caldecott"
> wrote:

>I am experiencing a highly annoying problem on my Dell
>8100 laptop running XP SP1. Whenever I plug in a device
>that creates a new drive letter (USB camera, USB keyfob
>drive, FireWire drive, etc.) Windows appears to see it -
>the device appears in the "Safely Remove..." taskbar menu
>and the machine beeps, but the new drive letter doesn't
>appear in My Computer. In order to make the drive
>accessible I have to reboot my laptop with the device
>connected. Note also that if I plug in one of these
>devices when Windows has started, any attempt to shut
>down results in a hang (looks like in RUNDLL32).
>
>Anyone seen this before?

You may have blocked certain drive letters from being used.
Install Tweakui for XP and unblock them or check Group Policy
(gpedit.msc)

Peter Hutchison