New Storage HD "absorbs" flash drive

[LuckyLyndy]

Tried searching for this problem, and couldn't find anything.
Here goes:
Put in new HD as my slave/storage unit. I am using XP Pro SP2, and it
was recognized, used the disc that came with the ATA Maxtor as well.
It is listed in my computer as DRV2_VOL1(F Partition Style Master
Boot Record), my primary HD is Local Disk (C
When I place my Kingston 4GB flash thumb drive into a USB slot. It is
recognized as Kingston (G It can be opened up and all files read and
displayed.
Problem: The minute I try to transfer any files to the flash drive,I
get an file error message: Cannot copy ****Cannot find the specified
file, it becomes part of the Maxtor Slave drive, looks like a sub-
heading of the DRV2_VOL1(F. Now the properties of the thumb drive
show that the memory space is totally full.
All was working fine before I installed that secondary HD.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Lyndon
Salt Lake City

 

[Dave]

Tried searching for this problem, and couldn't find anything.
Here goes:
Put in new HD as my slave/storage unit. I am using XP Pro SP2, and it
was recognized, used the disc that came with the ATA Maxtor as well.
It is listed in my computer as DRV2_VOL1(F Partition Style Master
Boot Record), my primary HD is Local Disk (C
When I place my Kingston 4GB flash thumb drive into a USB slot. It is
recognized as Kingston (G It can be opened up and all files read and
displayed.
Problem: The minute I try to transfer any files to the flash drive,I
get an file error message: Cannot copy ****Cannot find the specified
file, it becomes part of the Maxtor Slave drive, looks like a sub-
heading of the DRV2_VOL1(F. Now the properties of the thumb drive
show that the memory space is totally full.
All was working fine before I installed that secondary HD.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Lyndon
Salt Lake City

Crazy question . . . has the new hard drive been partitioned and formatted?
If not, create a -primary- partition, NTFS file system, on the new hard
drive, and format the new hard drive. (control panel, administrative tools,
computer management, disk management).

If the new hard drive HAS been partitioned and formatted, I believe you will
have to do this over again anyway. I fail to see how the new hard drive
ended up as F:, so I suspect something went wrong during the partitioning
process. Be sure to create a primary partition on the new hard drive. If
properly partitioned, the new hard drive (or the first partition on the new
hard drive anyway) should be assigned logical drive D:
NOTE that the first partition of the new hard drive should be recognized as
drive D: (not F

Once you get that straightened out, I believe you will find that your
Kingston flash drive is working OK again, BUT . . . the logical drive letter
assigned to Kingston might have changed. -Dave