Drive letter for USB Stick

[Guest]

I'm using Windows XP Prof.
When I connect a USB stick in any of the 4 ports, the system recognizes the
new hardware. I don't get any error messages but windows doesn't assign any
drive letter to it. So I can't use the USB stick.

Following drive letters ar already assigned:
A: floppy
C: D: E: F: partitions on the HD
G: CD-RW
H: J: K: L: M: P: S: T: U: V: network connections
Following drive leetters are still free:
B:
I: N: O: Q: R: W: X:

What could be the cause of this?
On other PC There is no problem with the USB Stick: a drive letter is
assigned and the USB stick is read and writable.


RW

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'm using Windows XP Prof.
When I connect a USB stick in any of the 4 ports, the system recognizes the
new hardware. I don't get any error messages but windows doesn't assign any
drive letter to it. So I can't use the USB stick.

Following drive letters ar already assigned:
A: floppy
C: D: E: F: partitions on the HD
G: CD-RW
H: J: K: L: M: P: S: T: U: V: network connections
Following drive leetters are still free:
B:
I: N: O: Q: R: W: X:

What could be the cause of this?
On other PC There is no problem with the USB Stick: a drive letter is
assigned and the USB stick is read and writable.


RW

I would try this:

- Run regedit.exe
- Navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
- Delete all values \DosDevices\I: (i.e. those referring to free letters)
- Reboot

I don't know if this will help but it certainly won't do any harm.

 

[David Vair]

Go to Computer Management and select Disk Management, find the USB drive and select assign a letter.
it is probably trying to take one assigned to network drive so thats why its not shown.