[W2003 Server] USB2 drive on a USB1 controller

[Vincent Delporte]

Hello

I'm running Windows 2003 Server on an older test host that has a USB 1
controller. Although W2003 does detect the USB2 thumb drive and lists
it under mass storage, tells me that I would get better performance if
I used a USB2 controller, but doesn't assign it a drive letter.

Anybody knows what to do?

Thank you.

 

[Rod Speed]

I'm running Windows 2003 Server on an older test host that has a USB 1
controller. Although W2003 does detect the USB2 thumb drive and lists
it under mass storage, tells me that I would get better performance if
I used a USB2 controller, but doesn't assign it a drive letter.

Anybody knows what to do?

Add a USB2 card if you care about the speed.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hello

I'm running Windows 2003 Server on an older test host that has a USB 1
controller. Although W2003 does detect the USB2 thumb drive and lists
it under mass storage, tells me that I would get better performance if
I used a USB2 controller, but doesn't assign it a drive letter.

Anybody knows what to do?

Maybe there is no filesystem on the drive?

Arno

 

[Rolf Blom G (AS/EAB)]

Maybe there is no filesystem on the drive?

Arno

Or an incompatible filesystem? I've noticed a harddisk formatted using
Win2000 (NTFS) was not recognised when attached to a Win2003server box.

/Rolf

 

[Vincent Delporte]

Or an incompatible filesystem? I've noticed a harddisk formatted using
Win2000 (NTFS) was not recognised when attached to a Win2003server box.

Thx guys. The answer was to go into Device Manager > Disk Manager and
assign a letter to the USB drive manually.

 

[Eric Gisin]

Nonsense. You screwed up.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Thx guys. The answer was to go into Device Manager > Disk Manager and
assign a letter to the USB drive manually.

As usual the answer was embedded in the question.

 

[Vincent Delporte]

As usual the answer was embedded in the question.

Was it?

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Was it?

Similar to your 'question' not being in the 2 words with the question mark,
yet we know what the question is.

When you said that it wasn't "getting a drive letter" the solution was ob-
viously in "getting it a drive letter". See? Simple.

 

[Vincent Delporte]

When you said that it wasn't "getting a drive letter" the solution was ob-
viously in "getting it a drive letter". See? Simple.

Ah ok.