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    Plugging in flash drive – no drive letter provided

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    by bldsm ·

    Each time I plug in my 2GB flash drive the laptop makes a noise to indicate the drive has been found and shows the found hardware ballon but it does not give me a drive letter and I cannot find the drive on any of the allocated drive letters.

    Can anyone please help me before I throw the unit out the window in frustration!!!

    Thanks
    Bruce

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    • #2497138

      Clarifications

      by bldsm ·

      In reply to Plugging in flash drive – no drive letter provided

      Clarifications

    • #2520507

      Disk Management

      by craig.a ·

      In reply to Plugging in flash drive – no drive letter provided

      Right click on ‘My Computer’ – go to ‘Manage’ – click on ‘Disk Management’ under ‘Storage’ – on the right pane find your flash drive, which probably won’t have a drive letter assigned to it, right click on this and go to ‘Change drive letter and paths’ – change drive letter.

      • #2522962

        Thank You

        by dreyno01 ·

        In reply to Disk Management

        Thank you, this solution worked!!

      • #2648334

        Thanks Man!

        by tlink211 ·

        In reply to Disk Management

        I just got a nice new 8Gig drive and managed to screw it right up (it’s a gift, I don’t question it)….Thanks for the tip, Craig.
        Got my drive letter back and everything is warm and fuzzy, now.

      • #2552159

        You Helped Me too!

        by cyclone411 ·

        In reply to Disk Management

        Thanks for the reminder about using Disk Management. You guidance solved my access problem.

      • #2806705

        USB driver letter

        by lgorod ·

        In reply to Disk Management

        Thanks a lot. It helps

      • #3011790

        Will not allow me to rename drive

        by panda1982 ·

        In reply to Disk Management

        I have attempted to rename the drive as desribed. Unfortunately the CHANGE button is greyed out and will only allow me to select ADD. No letter is currently assigned to the drive and I am unable to access any drop down menu or type in anything.

        Has anyone else run into this issue?

    • #2520501

      humm

      by cg it ·

      In reply to Plugging in flash drive – no drive letter provided

      which O/S? if XP or Vista should show that it’s installed and viewable when you click the computer icon or computer from the task bar. Also in computer management. You might have to format the drive to use it but should be seen as device with removable media.

    • #2552131

      Sometimes…

      by notsochiguy ·

      In reply to Plugging in flash drive – no drive letter provided

      …if you are already utilizing the D, E, F, and G mappings, the USB device won’t pull a drive letter, depending on the manufacturer.

      What I’ve had to do is to change a drive mapping for something else (like switching the CD-ROM to be the B:\ instead of D:\)…and then the USB device would load just fine.

      I see this less and less frequently, but it still pops up every once in a while.

    • #2952922

      Help!!

      by montiger12 ·

      In reply to Plugging in flash drive – no drive letter provided

      I have a 16GB Flash(ZIXA) that no longer works in my work pc, but it works on every other pc i’ve tried to put it in. recently we were put onto Active Directory. Spoke to the admin guy and he has given me rights to access my flash ( I can access other flash drives perfectly, just having trouble with the 16GB )

      I’ve tried all the methods posted so far, but to no avail. Any ideas??

      Thanks

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