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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 27th 18, 08:11 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 10
Views: 435
Posted By Uwe Sieber
USB Drive Issue

Lucifer wrote:
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:41:18 -0400, Paul
wrote:

If that works, open Disk Management and verify the device
is in the "Online" state. If the disk...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 16th 18, 08:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 426
Posted By Uwe Sieber
What happens if you exceed drive letters (A thru Z)

wrote:

So, what happens if I had 8 drive letters left to use, and plugged in
two exterenal HDDs with 4 partitions on each. Then plugfged in a Flash
Drive. I have now exceeded...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum December 16th 16, 10:33 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 17
Views: 337
Posted By Uwe Sieber
"Get Volume Name for Volume Mount Point"

Error 1 is ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION. Maybe HarddiskVolume1
is a volume created by a ramdisk driver and not managed
by the Windows volume manager. This would make
GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support October 14th 15, 10:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 3,536
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Using 1TB Drive with Win2000

Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney wrote:
First, just so you know.... I realize this is an old PC and OS. It's used in an industrial application, not for normal use. The software can't be transferred to...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 2nd 15, 08:57 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 24
Views: 1,123
Posted By Uwe Sieber
command line: how do I remount an ejected stick?

T wrote:
On 08/28/2015 08:12 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
T wrote:

From the command line, how do I remount a previously ejected flash
drive (still in the hole)?

...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum August 12th 15, 11:25 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 39
Views: 1,457
Posted By Uwe Sieber
any workaround to cameras without drive letters

T wrote:
Hi All,

Came across a program where it required that digital
cameras mounted as a drive letter. Of course, the
camera did not do "Mass Storage Device" so no
drive letter.

...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 1st 15, 04:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 407
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Invalid path

Andy wrote:
I use both Linux and XP.

When I used XP to open a .png file created in Linux, it failed saying that that there was an "invalid path."

In the past I have had no problems...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 29th 15, 11:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 532
Posted By Uwe Sieber
USB COM adapters jump around

Port numbers should not change. They appear to do
if Windows thinks that they are new ones. This
happens when a USB to serial adaptor has no USB
hardware serial number and is attached to a...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum February 18th 15, 08:08 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 34
Views: 1,243
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Drive not shared still visible

AutoShareWks=0 prevents the shares from being
created. I would expect them not being persistent,
so they should not be there after a restart.
If they are then they can be removed by commandline:
net...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support February 16th 15, 08:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 8
Views: 2,364
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Access an USB memory stick regardless of the driveletter it got?

R.Wieser wrote:
Hello JJ,

While looking for possibilities to change the driveletter of my usb stick I
came across a reference to an on XP available program named "mountvol". It
can list,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 27th 15, 08:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 1,001
Posted By Uwe Sieber
permission to disconnect external drive

micky wrote:
RemoveDrive V2.7.0 (Win32) - prepares drives for safe removal
Freeware by Uwe Sieber - www.uwe-sieber.de
Removing 'WDC WD15 EARS-32MVWB0 USB Device' (F:, G:, E:)
checking...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 26th 15, 08:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 14
Views: 1,001
Posted By Uwe Sieber
permission to disconnect external drive

micky wrote:

Here's the output.

D:\Downloads\RemoveDrive\Win32removedrive e:

RemoveDrive V2.7.0 (Win32) - prepares drives for safe removal
Freeware by Uwe Sieber -...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 18th 14, 11:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 859
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Unknown source of beeping

OldGuy wrote:
NOTE: some apps like this detect USB drives but NOT USB WebCams.
Does this console app detect external USB WebCams?
If so, what API are you using to do so?

Yes, it shows arrival...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 17th 14, 08:09 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 859
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Unknown source of beeping

Andy wrote:
Here is a small console program I made some time ago
which shows upcoming device arrival and removal events:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listdevevents.zip



I ran it,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 15th 14, 09:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 859
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Unknown source of beeping

OldGuy wrote:
Andy a écrit :
I keep getting a periodic beeping sound on my XP system.

I am trying to determine the source.

It is the same sound you get when a device is plugged on or...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 5th 14, 08:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 614
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Curious Pen Drives Observation

USB drives report to the host if they have
a removable media or not. It's called the
Removable Media Bit - RMB. The manufacturer
can choose to set it or not.
The meaning of the bit is that the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 3rd 14, 03:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 12
Views: 796
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Windows 7 PC intermittently loses access to built-in card-readerdrives

Brian Gregory wrote:
On 02/04/2014 08:13, Uwe Sieber wrote:

If you have used the "Safely remove hardware"
facility on it then it complely disappears.
For a internal multi reader the...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 2nd 14, 08:13 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 12
Views: 796
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Windows 7 PC intermittently loses access to built-in card-readerdrives

If you have used the "Safely remove hardware"
facility on it then it complely disappears.
For a internal multi reader the right choice
is to right-click the drive in the Windows
Explorer and "Eject"...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 19th 12, 08:13 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 481
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Devcon

Andy wrote:
You can use the following :

devcon find ACPI*
...to see if you have the right name for your device, as this command

ACPI\SYN0141\4&B310638&0 :...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 11th 12, 11:59 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 996
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Access a local drive without a drive letter?

NimbUs wrote:
You can use this with Microsoft DEVCON command line tool:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

Enclose the id in quotation marks and set an @ in front:
DEVCON disable...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 10th 12, 11:59 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 996
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Access a local drive without a drive letter?

NimbUs wrote:
Uwe Sieber wrote :

And VMWARE should just dismount the accessed volumes and
warn you if this fails.

Nice but there is a detail which you (maybe) overlooked and...
Forum: General XP issues or comments September 4th 12, 11:57 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 996
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Access a local drive without a drive letter?

NimbUs wrote:
Thanks Uwe Sieber . You wrote:

Back to your question... It's about a volume being mounted or
not. Windows does not mount volumes without a drive letter
because...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 23rd 12, 10:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 12
Views: 996
Posted By Uwe Sieber
Access a local drive without a drive letter?

NimbUs wrote:
Paul écrivait news:k10n1o$5d6$1@dont-
email.me:

Bert wrote:
Windows XP Pro SP3
Is there any way, from the command line or programatically,
to...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 17th 12, 10:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 2,792
Posted By Uwe Sieber
How to install Windows 7 on an exFAT SSD partition ?

Hot-Text wrote:
"Uwe Sieber" wrote in message
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Hot-Text wrote:


"Uwe Sieber" wrote in message
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Forum: General XP issues or comments August 15th 12, 05:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 2,792
Posted By Uwe Sieber
How to install Windows 7 on an exFAT SSD partition ?

Hot-Text wrote:


"Uwe Sieber" wrote in message
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Hot-Text wrote:
"Uwe Sieber" wrote in message
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