I'm creating this topic on behalf of a friend; basically, his CD drive, his ipod, and every removable storage device is no longer showing up within Windows XP after he recently installed a program called "u3". The drives do not show up in my computer or device manager. He has since removed the program to no avail. I've never had a problem like this so I'm unsure how to diagnose it
View 1 Replieshave a Maxtor SATA 200 gig hardrive running windows XP. The hardrive always shows up as a Removable Drive. How can i get it to be a standard drives instead of a removable hardrive?MoochuComputer Spec:OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2CPU: AMD ATHLON 64 3200MotherBoard: GIGABYTE GA-K8NS 939Ram: 1Gig DDR 400Harddrive: Maxtor Sata 200Gig
View 5 Replies View RelatedWe use a USB device which allows us to plug in IDE and SATA hard drives to test and read data. We use one computer for this testing and we test a lot of drives. Well recently the device started locking up the computer just as the computer finishes loading the drivers. I first thought it was the USB in the machine, but mice and keyboard both work in all the ports. I then thought it was the device but I tried it in another machine and it worked as it should. I tired plugging in a flash drive into the machine and it does the same thing.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy operating system is Windows XP Pro. As of yesterday all was fine, I even burned a DVD. Today "My Computer" isn't even showing my DVD/CD recorder, only showing Drive A: 3.5 Floppy. It started when I downloaded (I think) WindowsBlinds, just wanted to do some color changes. Well when I installed it, Norton came up with a Trojan. Norton Quarantined or deleted it and said no more further actions required. The install finished (windowblinds) and I tried a couple different skins and decided to uninstall it. Uninstalled with Revo Uninstaller
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am using Windows XP Professional SP2 on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe MB. I have 5 internal HDD's and 2 external USB drives, I also have 2 DVD R/RW +- Dual Density drives, a Zip 250 and an Orb 2GB drive. So far this year I have had to reinstall my Windows like 8 times and done about 4 Windows repairs! Each time I seem to get 4 extra removable drives added to my system. In Disk Manager they are listed as "Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device", I have changed Device Usage to Do Not use this device (disable) and also I have uninstalled each device. Unfortunately, each time I restart the computer, they come back, shifting other drives to another drive letter.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a usb flash disk storage device and a flash mp3 player (usb) that will
not show up in windows explorer as Removable Disks. Both devices show up in
device manager as working correctly. I am running windows XP.
Just discovered that along with Local Disk "C", DVD-RW "D" and "CD" E drive. I now have 4 new "Removable" drives FGHI. Dont know where they came from, but every time I start or re-start my PC the "SafelyRemove Hardware" icon appears in the right bottom of my screen. Cant get rid of it, and where did these removable drives come from???
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a portable flash disk usb storage device and a flash mp3 player (usb)
that will not show up in windows explorer as Removable Disks. Both devices
show up in device manager as working correctly. I am running windows XP.
See attached screen shot. The drives: E, F, G, H, are all parts of my multi-card reader. One is for MemoryStick, another is SD Cards, CompactFlash, etc. Would it be alright to rename these to something more recognizable at a glance? (for example, rename "Removable Disk (H)" to "SD Card") Or will it somehow mess up the way the drives read the cards?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedAll of my removable drives seem to have disappeared. I'e been on TweakUI in the Control anel and looked at the drives in there and all of them except from my local and disk drive have red crosses through them... It's the drive I use for my camera card
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm pretty sure I have a virus on my PC itself and on my flash drive. CA keeps popping up every 10 seconds or so telling me that a virus has been detected and deleted on my removable drive. It's called INF/Slenfbot.GT and it's on my Autorun.inf file on my drive.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an odd issue with diskmgmt.msc or the disk managment feature of computer management (both the same thing). Anyway, it displays my fixed hard drive in my laptop just fine, however my SD/MMC cards, CD/DVD drives, external drives, etc.....do not show up. They are recognized however, and I can access my drive G: (the SD card) just fine through explorer and my computer. Is there any reason why they're not showing up in my disk management console? and is there a way to fix this?
View 4 Replies View Relatedmore precisely, what leads XP to decide what is removable and what isn't? Example: System 1 is a P4 built in a Shuttle SFF case with the provided MB; 1 SATA hard disk with three partitions, 1 DVD-ROM on PATA, 1 floppy on floppy channel, 1 multi-format flash reader on USB; the system sees two of the flash slots as removable storage. System 2 is an Athlon 64 built on an Epox Nvidia+ MB. 1 SATA hard disk (with two partitions), 1 SATA DVD-ROM (using a bridge adapter), 4 hard disks on PATA, 1 floppy on floppy channel, 1 multi-format flash reader on USB; the system sees _both_ SATA drives as being removable along with two of the flash slots. Either system properly sees an external hard disk on USB or Firewire as being removable.
View 2 Replies View RelatedROXIO version of GOBACK being the cause of the problem. when I had to do a reinstall of windows and noticed that Windows Explorer wasn't showing my second and third drives.I know and very easily fixable by going into Disk Management. drives were showing in Disk Management, there was no letter assigned to them.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have setup a wireless network between two computers in my office and have installed some software that will automatically backup folders on each of the two computers.It work by backing up certain folders on computer 1 to the hard disk on computer 2 and vice versa.I also have a program installed on both computers that uses the data on computer 1.simplify the process of locating the data on my network I have created virtual drives using the Map Network Drives function in Windows. However; if I start up my computer and open these programs - they can not find the drives, I have to open My Computer first and double click on the drives before the programs will read from them. I am guessing that for some reason Windows is not connecting to these drives, even though I have set them to "reconnect at logon".
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have 2 hard drives with xp on them. one though only small works fine. the other (120gB ) will boot from cd or floppy but once xp is running all removable disk drives are " not available ". fixed drives (slave hard drives
are ok. it has not always been like this. does anyone have any ideas please?
dynamic & basic storage
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan you create a pagefile.sys on removable HDD's? I apparently cannot. I wanted to set an initial and max Pagefile amount of 500MB to 750MB each across all drives except C. Even though the system "seems" to have set the amount of space I allocated in the Virtual Memory section, it has created only ONE 500MB pagefile.sys on my H (fixed) drive. That amount is confirmed on the Advanced Tab for Performance Options section by the statement "Total Paging File For All Drives: 500". I have set a small initial and max amount of 2MB to 50MB on my system drive (C) which is recommended since you do not want a large swap file on the same HDD as your OS, but that does not show neither. Why did the system not create the other Swap Files? Does it have to need it before it creates it?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI have a computer used for weekly backups that will utilize a removable hard drive that gets swapped out every week for offsite storage. In this case, I will have two of these removable hard drives, only one of which will be in use at any time, swapping in and out with each other every week.Since these hard drives will also contain the OS, how do I deal with XP licensing and authentication? Since there's only *one* computer, can I install and authorize a single copy of XP (Pro) on both removable hard drives? It seems unfair I would have to buy two copies of XP if only one is going to be used on the single computer at any given time.
View 30 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there's an accessible storage file, like index.dat, for the passwords IE asks you to save. And if there is, where is it located? I know that they can be cleared through Internet Options but I just wanted to see how many and which ones are saved.I'm running Windows XP SP1.
View 6 Replies View RelatedShould this be disabled in Win Xp Home under device manager. If I enable it I get the Safe to remove Hardware icon in the system tray? Lower rt corner of screen. Another thing, if I enable the device, I get 4 generic disks listed under "Disk Drive" in device manager.
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View 11 Replies View Related(*Get some free giggles out of M$'s definitions for a "system" and "boot" partition. Hint: the partition that is used to boot your machine is NOT called "boot", and the partition that holds your operating system is NOT called "system". http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314470)
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a pretty old and crappy computer with a 40gb HDD. Just a week ago I had like 13-14 GB free on it. Then I got a virus. I successfully cleared out all traces of the virus that I could find using ad-aware and trend micro house call.When I was scanning with adaware, it shows the filenames and paths being scanned. There were all of these files(and I mean thousands) with porn names, and I had never put them there. Adaware didn't catch them as any sort of bad file either. The weird thing is, when I went to the directory that it said they were located in, nothing was there. I even made hidden files visible and still nothing.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI tried fdisking to my Hard Drive in DOS and it only recognized 5 Gigs, but the drive is a 40 Gig. I've gone into recovery console on XP and managed to delete the 5 gig partition and create a 40gig partition, but when I've gone into XP it has disappeared. So, I tried accessing it via Control Panel - It's there, but I can't do anything with it.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI would like to use several removable hard drive bays on several PCs.Then have a hard drive with XP on it and take it with me to each machine as I need to. It does not need to hot-swap and I doubt I am breaching the Microsoft EULA because I could only use it on one PC at a time.I believe that the activation is based on points gathered from the items installed in each PC it is installed on and they would differ from PC to PC. Especially things like the NIC with it's own MAC address.
View 10 Replies View RelatedMy office has a group of XP machines which have been working just fine. They started changing to wireless mice with a USB connection, and now the pcs aren't recognizing USB storage devices any longer. They worked for a few days, then started acting stupid. They first wouldn't just install--needed admin authority. Then didn't recognize the device. Now they don't do anything. Since the problem started after the USB mice were installed, I am thinking there is a connection but am not sure. What do you do when the pc won't acknowledge your thumb or portable hard drive with all your data and files? We don't have a network where we store individual's data. The portable hard drive that they said "was not recognizable" works just fine with my pc at home, so I know the hard drive didn't die yet.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI reused an old computer for vidcam DVR storage and ran into a problem. The system is and old HP which I did a reinstall of XP. I don't think I installed any user accounts. I installed swann DVR software and the swan card- everything was running OK and worked as advertised. The swann stuff starts automatically when booting. I then upgraded to XP SP2. After booting the system asks for the XP login. I have tried every combination that I would have put in along with the defults and the swann login stuff to no avail. Is there a way around this to get into the system?
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