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by kingofjokes1999 1 view

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I have looked at several sites for an answer and they only partially apply to me.. i plug in my usb storage device and it wont show up on 'my computer' it will show up in device manager and yet it wont show up in the computer management. i have used it before on this computer and another but now it wont and i already have it formatted and i have items on the device too. its properties say that it is all working and the drivers are fine.. it just wont show up anywhere other than the device manager and i cant access it.. can anyone help out on this please?

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by retro77

Is this on a school computer? They may have locked it down.

by chris910

--Right-click My computer
--select manage
--select disk management
--in the bottom right pane select the Drive with no assigned drive letter
--right-click it and select "change drive letter and paths"
--Click on change and select an unused drive letter

by kingofjokes1999

thats a problem.. it wont show up in the disk management.. only things that show is my hard drive and my dvd drive.. not the usb

by chris910

Have you tried deleting it from device manager? (you should remove the drive and reboot the workstation prior to reinstalling)

by qmsa

I'm having the same problem. Did you manage to get a
solution?

by older mycroft

Perhaps now is the time to make sure it does actually STILL work on another computer.

If it does - transfer the files on THAT computer.

Problem solved.

You can then continue to battle with it to get it recognised in Disk Management but the worry of the files will be gone.

by Former member

There is a family of virus that is going around that removes the USB and other fixed and removable drives from the registry in an attempt to prevent you from installing malware removal products. I would first suggest you run a virus check followed by a spyware check and then look on the web to replace them in the registry.

by hvnut

I also have the same problem and have tried everything I can think of. I have an apple Iphone that will not show up in my computer and also in scanners and camera's.
My computer shows all my USB traveldrives and Mini USB hard drives. I have changed all the drive letters already to no avail. I know the iphone is working because it shows up fine on two other computers. When the iphone is first connected to my desktop it shows up as a imaging device in the device manager and also comes up in the picture viewer and shows all the pictures from the iphone but a error message comes up that says I can't copy due to interface not registered. Please can anyone help me. Thanks

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