On May 7, 10:20*am, CJB wrote:
On May 7, 8:09*am, Uwe Sieber wrote:
Sounds like the drive is hidden in the Explorer
by a registry setting. See hehttp://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html
Uwe
CJB wrote:
Scan Disk U3
This is weird. When I plug this USB flash drive into a USB port on my
laptop running XP Windows Explorer only shows it as the I: drive (the
drive letter 'I' is of course arbitrary). This has but three files/
folders:
autorun.inf
LaunchPad.zip- which contains all the executable files
LaunchU3.exe
However WE does not show the F: drive (again another arbitrary drive
letter) which is where all the user data files are supposed to be.
It is as though the autorun.inf file didn't execute.
HOWEVER if I start up an app. and open a file into it, e.g. Notepad or
Word or MPlayer etc., and then browse the folders and files on the
computer I see not only the I: drive but also the F: drive. I can then
browse to a file on the F: drive and open it into the respective
app.
So the big problem is how to make the F: drive visible in Windows
Explorer along with the files on it. I've never seen this problem
before.
Many thanks - Chris B.
Thank you very much indeed - this sounds like the problem. But its
curious that the drive letter assignments work OK for all the other
apps. and that its *only* Windows Explorer can't see the one that is
assigned to the data files on the flash drive. I even tried File /
Open using Internet Explorer and it found the 'missing' drive letter
OK. Chris B.
I have researched this issue and its driving me mad - and it seems I'm
not the only one.
I have XP with SP3 so this shouldn't be a problem.
I have tried various methods to assign a drive letter to the Scandisk
U3 so that XP WE recognises it - but all to no avail.
WE assigns a letter to the C; and D: network drivers. It uses E: for
the CD / DVD drive.
I have now got it to assign W: to the system partition of the U3
flashdrive. And apparently it assigns V: to the documents partition.
BUT whilst WE lists the W: drive, it will not list the V: drive. I can
access the V: drive from other apps but that is not the problem. I
need to list the files with WE.
I have also applied for the special hotfix at:
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/...187&kbln=en-us
but time and time again this is ignored.
If anyone can get this for me that would be great. Many thanks.
I wonder if a complete re-install of SP3 might repair whatever has
gone wrong?
But I do think that this is appalling lack of support by MS - as if
they care - and my next installation on the laptop will be Linux not
Win7.
Chris B.