USB removable storage device

Posted: 04-07-2004, 02:07 PM

Tim

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OS is XP Professional

When I plug a USB removable storage device in to the pc, I
can not see it on explorer or such. Device and driver
troubleshooting all say that everything is ok ?

USB removable storage device

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Bob Harris

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Re: USB removable storage device

Posted: 04-07-2004, 11:06 PM

Just a guess, but assuming that this is a new drive, did you ever format the
external drive? Some come pre-formatted as FAT32, which XP can handle.
But, others come "raw", since they could be used by MACs as well as by PCs.

Use the XP disk managment tool to see the disk's status, format, etc. If
"raw" or "unformatted", use the same tool to "initialize" the disk, then
format it. Initalizing is similar to what te old DOS fdsik utility used to
do, creating partitions, but XP has a much friendlier interface.

"Tim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> OS is XP Professional
>
>
>
> When I plug a USB removable storage device in to the pc, I
> can not see it on explorer or such. Device and driver
> troubleshooting all say that everything is ok ?
>
>

Shirley

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RE: USB removable storage device

Posted: 04-07-2004, 11:46 PM

You might need to go into disk management to format and/or assign a letter to the device

with the removable storage device plugged into the US

right click my computer/manage
click the "+" next to storage/click disk management

locate the removable drive bottom left of windo
right click on the "Misc Drive"/format..
and/o
right click/change drive and paths...

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