My Computer and USB Storage Devices

Recently, my USB port was registering F drive. Then it grabbed onto the G:
drive which is my project drive on the server. I got the G: drive back to
the project files but now the USB ports dont register any drive to access in
MY COMPUTER. Thus I can t access or use the USB ports for file transfer.
How to I get these temp drives to show up in MY COMPUTER window again. The
USB ports are working, so says the Device Manager.................I
uninstalled but no luck there. Hopefully, this is a easy fix. The portable
storage works on other computers in the network, just not mine anymore. UGH!
PS thanks in advance for all your expertise, I could live to be 100 and never
have a clue.
--
jane

smlunatick
Thu May 08 11:53:33 PDT 2008

On May 8, 2:21=A0pm, janew <janew> wrote:
> Recently, my USB port was registering F drive. =A0Then it grabbed onto the=
G:
> drive which is my project drive on the server. =A0I got the G: drive back =
to
> the project files but now the USB ports dont register any drive to access =
in
> MY COMPUTER. =A0Thus I can t access or use the USB ports for file transfer=
. =A0
> How to I get these temp drives to show up in MY COMPUTER window again. =A0=
The
> USB ports are working, so says the Device Manager.................I
> uninstalled but no luck there. =A0Hopefully, this is a easy fix. =A0The po=
rtable
> storage works on other computers in the network, just not mine anymore. UG=
H! =A0
> PS thanks in advance for all your expertise, I could live to be 100 and ne=
ver
> have a clue.
> --
> jane

Look at: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

For more help: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

For Windows XP Device Manager "cleanup", copy:


set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=3D1
cd %SystemRoot%\System32
start devmgmt.msc

And remove all "unknown" devices.

Bill
Thu May 08 12:40:07 PDT 2008

And if this doesn't work for her maybe she could try the easy way out and do
a System Restore back to a checkpoint before this all happened. Of
course, if she does this, she'll lose all her recent changes since that
point in time - that's the caveat.

smlunatick wrote:
> On May 8, 2:21 pm, janew <janew> wrote:
>> Recently, my USB port was registering F drive. Then it grabbed onto the
>> G:
>> drive which is my project drive on the server. I got the G: drive back to
>> the project files but now the USB ports dont register any drive to access
>> in
>> MY COMPUTER. Thus I can t access or use the USB ports for file transfer.
>> How to I get these temp drives to show up in MY COMPUTER window again.
>> The
>> USB ports are working, so says the Device Manager.................I
>> uninstalled but no luck there. Hopefully, this is a easy fix. The
>> portable
>> storage works on other computers in the network, just not mine anymore.
>> UGH!
>> PS thanks in advance for all your expertise, I could live to be 100 and
>> never
>> have a clue.
>> --
>> jane
>
> Look at: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
>
> For more help: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html
>
> For Windows XP Device Manager "cleanup", copy:
>
>
> set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
> cd %SystemRoot%\System32
> start devmgmt.msc
>
> And remove all "unknown" devices.