removable drives don't show up

I heard the beep, and see the "safely remove hardware"
thingy on my toolbar,...but when i go to explorer to see
it, it isn't there. this goes for my jumpdrive, digital
ccamera and scanner...none of them show up.

I had the same problem this link may help.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;873169&Product=windowsxpsp2

-----Original Message-----
I heard the beep, and see the "safely remove hardware"
thingy on my toolbar,...but when i go to explorer to see
it, it isn't there. this goes for my jumpdrive, digital
ccamera and scanner...none of them show up.




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When seing *lots* of complaints like this, I used to think it is kind of hardware problem.
Until recently I tried to change appearance of drive letters in My Computer using TweakUI.
After this, my USB flash failed to appear in explorer - that never happened before!
However it got a driver letter assigned (in disk manager). Knowing this letter, I was able to open it
from command prompt (start X
From the folder window, I opened up the folders tree pane - and the root of the flash drive
showed there as "zero length string". In the "my computer" view, it was simply not there.
Ater several plugs in-out, the normal behavior restored.
The most weird thing, TweakUI haven't change the drive letter apperance as advertised.
This makes me think, it is a TweakUI bug, and it could affect more users.
I'm using the XP version of TweakUI from MS downloads.

--PA

"lori" wrote in message ...
I heard the beep, and see the "safely remove hardware"
thingy on my toolbar,...but when i go to explorer to see
it, it isn't there. this goes for my jumpdrive, digital
ccamera and scanner...none of them show up.