USB Jump drive not assigned a drive letter

hello, when I plug in any type of USB jump drive I here the bling blong sound
and thatâ??s about it. I go up to the safely remove hardware arrow tool thing
and I can see the USB drive their. I open Windows Explorer and I can not see
the drive their (or on my computer) I go into disk management I can see the
drive their but I am unable to manually assign it a drive letter, anyone have
any ideas of what is going on? Same holds true if I try to read a SD Media
card with the card reader on my printer. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Tom
Tue Dec 26 23:21:24 CST 2006

When the computer is still off, plug the USB "jump drive" into the USB
port. Turn the computer on and boot to Windows in the regular way. Is
the drive now recognised? Is there any difference in the system's
behaviour? Let us know.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User

"Aaron H" <AaronH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2D2C8D03-A29E-49F7-9D3B-3290A5120DA7@microsoft.com...
: hello, when I plug in any type of USB jump drive I here the bling
blong sound
: and that's about it. I go up to the safely remove hardware arrow tool
thing
: and I can see the USB drive their. I open Windows Explorer and I can
not see
: the drive their (or on my computer) I go into disk management I can
see the
: drive their but I am unable to manually assign it a drive letter,
anyone have
: any ideas of what is going on? Same holds true if I try to read a SD
Media
: card with the card reader on my printer. Any help would be greatly
: appreciated.

Migorman
Wed Dec 27 16:25:38 CST 2006

This works for me when this happens....

1. Click on START
2. Go to Control Panel
3. Go to Administrative Tools
4. Go to Computer Management
5. On the left hand side click on Disk Management
6. Expand the window and see if your Pen Drive is there.
7. If so the chancge the drive letter to an unused letter.
8. Hope that does it for you.
Migorman...


On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:22:00 -0800, Aaron H
<AaronH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>hello, when I plug in any type of USB jump drive I here the bling blong sound
>and that?s about it. I go up to the safely remove hardware arrow tool thing
>and I can see the USB drive their. I open Windows Explorer and I can not see
>the drive their (or on my computer) I go into disk management I can see the
>drive their but I am unable to manually assign it a drive letter, anyone have
>any ideas of what is going on? Same holds true if I try to read a SD Media
>card with the card reader on my printer. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.

AaronH
Wed Dec 27 22:34:00 CST 2006

thanks for the help, I have tried that and the odd part is when I click on
change drive letter and path nothing at all happens. I try to format it
thinking that will help and i get the error message of the format did not
complete sucessuflly

"Migorman@cfl.rr.com" wrote:

> This works for me when this happens....
>
> 1. Click on START
> 2. Go to Control Panel
> 3. Go to Administrative Tools
> 4. Go to Computer Management
> 5. On the left hand side click on Disk Management
> 6. Expand the window and see if your Pen Drive is there.
> 7. If so the chancge the drive letter to an unused letter.
> 8. Hope that does it for you.
> Migorman...
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:22:00 -0800, Aaron H
> <AaronH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >hello, when I plug in any type of USB jump drive I here the bling blong sound
> >and thatâ??s about it. I go up to the safely remove hardware arrow tool thing
> >and I can see the USB drive their. I open Windows Explorer and I can not see
> >the drive their (or on my computer) I go into disk management I can see the
> >drive their but I am unable to manually assign it a drive letter, anyone have
> >any ideas of what is going on? Same holds true if I try to read a SD Media
> >card with the card reader on my printer. Any help would be greatly
> >appreciated.
>
>

Tom
Fri Dec 29 09:58:51 CST 2006

Navigate to Disk Management. Change the drive letter assignment(s) for
CD devices lower in the alphabet, say U,V,W....

Restart the computer. See if you can assign a drive letter now.

Let us know.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User

"Aaron H" <AaronH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9F8710E2-4DE9-4D06-A8F8-7F8A0040C291@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the respones
>
> I have tried that and their is no noticable difference.
>
> "Tom Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> When the computer is still off, plug the USB "jump drive" into the
>> USB
>> port. Turn the computer on and boot to Windows in the regular way. Is
>> the drive now recognised? Is there any difference in the system's
>> behaviour? Let us know.
>>
>> Tom
>> MSMVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>> "Aaron H" <AaronH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2D2C8D03-A29E-49F7-9D3B-3290A5120DA7@microsoft.com...
>> : hello, when I plug in any type of USB jump drive I here the bling
>> blong sound
>> : and that's about it. I go up to the safely remove hardware arrow
>> tool
>> thing
>> : and I can see the USB drive their. I open Windows Explorer and I
>> can
>> not see
>> : the drive their (or on my computer) I go into disk management I can
>> see the
>> : drive their but I am unable to manually assign it a drive letter,
>> anyone have
>> : any ideas of what is going on? Same holds true if I try to read a
>> SD
>> Media
>> : card with the card reader on my printer. Any help would be greatly
>> : appreciated.
>>
>>
>>