Bizarre Jump Drive Behavior

[Guest]

After having no problems attaching and using USB jump drives on XP machine,
for some reason XP now no longer recognizes drive. It comes up as Drive G:
when you go to "My Computer", but that's it. There is no other description
like Lexar or San Disk. When you click on G:, message says disk
inaccessible. The icon in the system tray is there for Safe Removal and does
describe the jump drive specifically by name. I have tried two other jump
drives as well with no success. I have moved drives to different port where
I had USB scanner plugged in and still no sucess. I plugged USB scanner
into original JD port and the scanner worked fine so it is not the USB port.
Any thoughts here?

BTY, while I was trying to trougbleshoot this situation, my physical D:
drive was renamed G: The D: drive disappeared. I had to use Computer
Management to rename it to D: All autoupdates have happened and I have
not been "tweaking" any settings before this jump drive non-recognition issue
occured. Any help is greatly apprectiated. Thanks! Chris

 

[Jon Erlandson]

With the jump drive plugged in, open device manager (start > run - enter
devmgmt.msc and ok) expand "disk drives" and see if you have an unknown
device listed. Uninstall the device, close all windows, unplug the jump
drive restart windows then plug the drive back in. You can also do this in
"Disk Management," (start > run - enter compmgmt.msc and ok) in console tree
click "disk management," select drive, right click > properties > drivers -
uninstall this device.