D: Drive lost with USB card reader

[Rob Lewis]

Hi

I originally had an AFDD), Cprimary HDD), Dslave
HDD) and ECDROM) drives. After I plugged in a Sandisk
CF card reader my D: drive seems to have disappeared.

Even when I now unplug the USB card reader and reboot,
the D: drive does not appear.

At first the card reader became D: but I reassigned it to
drive letter Z: through disk management in Administrative
tools. Even after disconnet of the card reader and a
reboot it will not appear anywhere.

Can anyone help here?

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

Hi

I originally had an AFDD), Cprimary HDD), Dslave
HDD) and ECDROM) drives. After I plugged in a Sandisk
CF card reader my D: drive seems to have disappeared.

Even when I now unplug the USB card reader and reboot,
the D: drive does not appear.

At first the card reader became D: but I reassigned it to
drive letter Z: through disk management in Administrative
tools. Even after disconnet of the card reader and a
reboot it will not appear anywhere.

Can anyone help here?

The drive should still show up in Disk Managment but I bet it isn't
assigned a drive letter. You just need to reassign a drive letter to it.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

 

[Rob]

Hi

The disk shows up in the device manager list and says
that there are no problems with it but it doesn't present
in the disk management list so that I can assign a drive
letter to it.

Is this where you are suggesting I change the drive
letter?

Rob

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

Hi

The disk shows up in the device manager list and says
that there are no problems with it but it doesn't present
in the disk management list so that I can assign a drive
letter to it.

Is this where you are suggesting I change the drive
letter?

Rob

-----Original Message-----


The drive should still show up in Disk Managment but I bet it isn't
assigned a drive letter. You just need to reassign a drive letter to it.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

I don't understand then. Any physical drive should show up in Disk
Managment. It doesn't matter even if it has a valid partion or not since
that is where you create a partition. Nothing with a USB memory drive
could impact that. Are you sure it is the correct drive you are seeing
in device manager? If a drive doesn't show in Disk Managment it can
really only be 2 problems, there is not a driver loaded for the
controller it is on or there is a hardware problem.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team