USB ports

[John]

My computer recoginzes my usb port but it won't assign it a letter, so the
way I have to get use my jump drive is by going into disk management. It
shows up then I assign it a letter temporarly. I've reinstalled windows xp
but still have the same problem. The only removalble storage divices that
are recognized are A for the floppy disk and drive D. Can anyone help me?

[thecreator]

You need to install the software for the external drive, before
connecting the external drive to the USB Port, first. Thou, some support for
external drives are built-in into Windows XP. If your External Drive came
with a CD, with Software, then install the Software first. Reboot and
connect the External Drive to the USB port.


--
thecreator


"John" > wrote in message
...
> My computer recoginzes my usb port but it won't assign it a letter, so the
> way I have to get use my jump drive is by going into disk management. It
> shows up then I assign it a letter temporarly. I've reinstalled windows
> xp
> but still have the same problem. The only removalble storage divices that
> are recognized are A for the floppy disk and drive D. Can anyone help me?

[Uwe Sieber]

John wrote:
> My computer recoginzes my usb port but it won't assign it a letter, so the
> way I have to get use my jump drive is by going into disk management. It
> shows up then I assign it a letter temporarly. I've reinstalled windows xp
> but still have the same problem. The only removalble storage divices that
> are recognized are A for the floppy disk and drive D. Can anyone help me?

There are reports that a failed installation of the
daemon tools V4 can cause this effect.
If you have a failed install of the daemon tools V4,
then this fix shall work:

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/showthread.php?p=58210
- switch in safe mode...hit ESC when trying to load sptd.sys
- use sptdinst_x86.exe remove....if it says that no sptd drivers
installed there is no problem....go to the next step
- use sptdinst_x86.exe add
- it will ask you to restart the computer after they are installed
- restart in normal mode...install daemon 4.03 and it works!!!!! it
will not ask you to restart after installation.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/files/sptdinst_x86.exe

Greetings from Germany

Uwe