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by brandon.strode

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I put the flash drive in the usb port and windows acknowledges it by saying that your hardware is installed and ready to use in the bubble above the task bar. But the flash drive's window never opens up. When I go to My Computer it is not listed there. But if I go to Device Manager it is listed and says its working properly. How do I fix this problem?

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by Member 28627989

Do you have an available drive letter for the flash drive? Check the drive letter assignments in Computer Managment / Storage / Disk Management. Change the assigned drive letter to one that is not already being used.

by brandon.strode

Changing one of the network drives to a different letter opened up the letter for the flash drive. Thanks.

by xt john

They can go bad. It may give you some indication by warning of read/write errors, though sometimes they just go. The USB port will detect something inserted, but cannot set the drive up properly. Sometimes, Windows will ask to format the device, or insert the media when it is already in the USB port. Have you tried the flash drive on naother computer?

by downrighttired

from an old flash drive, maybe a broken or burnt circuit in there somewhere. may wanna check your drivers too though depending on the manufacturer of the flash drive. Outdated MOBO drivers have also given me problems w/ flash drives.

by brandon.strode

I have tried three different flash drives all of which work in different computers.

by timmo

I had a PC with the same problem and found that the SPTD service/drivers whatever they are had somehow gotten confused so i downloaded the SPTD for windows from http://www.duplexsecure.com/downloads
Boot to safe mode and press "ESC" to cancel the SPTD thing, run the exe from the website, reboot and voila!

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