Can only see USB drives in Computer Management

[ab.aldago]

I'm using WinXP Pro SP2. I did a non-destructive no-reformat reinstall and
everything works fine except that I can't see my flash drives anywhere (My
Computer, Windows Explorer...) although they were working fine before the
reinstall. I CAN see the flash drives (different brands, different sizes) in
"Computer Management" and I see that there is no drive letter assigned. I
can assign a drive letter and then open the drive and view the files and
cut, paste, etc. while in "Computer Management" but can't see the drive
aywhere else. When I reboot, the drive letter assigned goes away. I have no
mapped network drives and the A, C and D (dvd ) drives are present and
accounted for. I'm assigning the next drive letter, E, and have even
assigned higher letters to no avail. I've run Chkdsk /f, checked to make
sure that I had administrator rights to modify the registry, made restore
points after assigning a drive letter, rebooted until I'm blue in the face.
No success.
Anybody have any ideas?????

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I'm using WinXP Pro SP2. I did a non-destructive no-reformat reinstall and
everything works fine except that I can't see my flash drives anywhere (My
Computer, Windows Explorer...) although they were working fine before the
reinstall. I CAN see the flash drives (different brands, different sizes) in
"Computer Management" and I see that there is no drive letter assigned. I
can assign a drive letter and then open the drive and view the files and
cut, paste, etc. while in "Computer Management" but can't see the drive
aywhere else. When I reboot, the drive letter assigned goes away. I have no
mapped network drives and the A, C and D (dvd ) drives are present and
accounted for. I'm assigning the next drive letter, E, and have even
assigned higher letters to no avail. I've run Chkdsk /f, checked to make
sure that I had administrator rights to modify the registry, made restore
points after assigning a drive letter, rebooted until I'm blue in the face.
No success.
Anybody have any ideas?????

I've made a checklist with some known reasons for
external drives not shown in the Windwos Explorer:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html



Uwe

 

[Macker]

Uwe

Many many thanks for this advice. I have been struggling with this issue
for months, but thanks to your web page, I found out it was Daemon
that was the problem. Uninstalled, and everything is back to normal.

Dave Mc