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Phaelax
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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 13:44
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I have a 1GB OCZ Ralley drive that shows up in my laptop, but no longer shows up on my desktop. I've rebooted, no difference. I get the Windows beep it makes when a usb device is connected but it'll never show up in the drive list. I also have Win7 installed and it doesn't show up there either. The only thing that's changed on my desktop is a card reader I've installed that connects to the internal USB headers. I also have a 4GB usb drive and that will show up when plugged in, so I know it's not the usb connection and the 1GB does show up on my laptop so I'm quite confused.

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Van B
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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 14:00
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Do you have any mapped drives? - particularly networked mapped drives to drive F:

Here, USB drives only work once I've set them a new drive letter, otherwise they conflict with the network file server drive F:.

If you right click My Computer, select Manage, then find the Disk Management section - you should see all your drives, including the USB one, and can give it a new drive letter - Right click on the drive for options I think.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 29th Jun 2011 02:24 Edited at: 29th Jun 2011 02:24
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I have several mapped drives, and the usb card reader created about 6 more.

Hah, that worked! It was setting the drive as M: which is already mapped to a share on the nas. Guess I didn't think it would show in drive management if Explorer wasn't seeing it. I wonder what happens if you run out of the alphabet? If I have both usb drives plugged in, I'll have 18 drive letters used up.




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Van B
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Posted: 29th Jun 2011 09:56
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Good question, I've never seen a drive set as anything else - I think it's a crusty old limitation from the DOS era. Linux and other operating systems can probably handle things a bit better.

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