Thumb Drive Issues

[Starfish]

Hello, I have a client running Windows XP Pro SP2. We just swapped his PC and
now he can't get any of his thumb drives to be recognized. He has three thumb
drives that showed up fine on the old PC. I think they had random drive
letters like I:\. His current PC has C and D used by the hard drive, E:\ by
the CDROM and F:\ G:\ M:\ R:\ S:\ by mapped drives. I moved the CDROM to
drive Z which allowed one thumb drive to grab drive E:\. However, I still
can't get the other 2 thumb drives to show up. I already applied a patch from
Microsoft that seemed like it addressed this issue - but it didn't. The patch
was from KB297694. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[AlmostBob]

Re: Thumb Drive Issues

I can set available drive letters with tweakuixp
perhaps the inaccessible drive letters have been disabled, with tweakuixp


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"Starfish" <Starfish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9ECC307E-5682-4A6D-A5A9-4B84268822B7@microsoft.com...
> Hello, I have a client running Windows XP Pro SP2. We just swapped his PC
> and
> now he can't get any of his thumb drives to be recognized. He has three
> thumb
> drives that showed up fine on the old PC. I think they had random drive
> letters like I:\. His current PC has C and D used by the hard drive, E:\
> by
> the CDROM and F:\ G:\ M:\ R:\ S:\ by mapped drives. I moved the CDROM to
> drive Z which allowed one thumb drive to grab drive E:\. However, I still
> can't get the other 2 thumb drives to show up. I already applied a patch
> from
> Microsoft that seemed like it addressed this issue - but it didn't. The
> patch
> was from KB297694. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[smlunatick]

Re: Thumb Drive Issues

On Oct 30, 6:13 pm, Starfish <Starf...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Hello, I have a client running Windows XP Pro SP2. We just swapped his PC and
> now he can't get any of his thumb drives to be recognized. He has three thumb
> drives that showed up fine on the old PC. I think they had random drive
> letters like I:\. His current PC has C and D used by the hard drive, E:\ by
> the CDROM and F:\ G:\ M:\ R:\ S:\ by mapped drives. I moved the CDROM to
> drive Z which allowed one thumb drive to grab drive E:\. However, I still
> can't get the other 2 thumb drives to show up. I already applied a patch from
> Microsoft that seemed like it addressed this issue - but it didn't. The patch
> was from KB297694. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Look for USBDLM.