Flash Drive not detected

[Wes Stebbins]

What would cause my Lexar 128 MB USB flash drive to not be detected on
certain machines. I can read it on my XP machine but not on certain other
XP and Windows 98 machines?

 

[PA Bear]

Are either of the other machines laptops? Do you another USB device plugged
in to another USB port?
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[Guest]

The cause is your computer assigning a drive letter to the flash drive, that
same drive letter of the flash drive is being used by peripheral on the other
computers, resulting in a conflict.

The fix is to go into disk management locate the flash drive and manually
assigning a drive letter far down in the alphabet.

With flash drive plugged into a USB port

-right click "My Computer"
-click on "Manage"
-click the "+" next to "Storage"
-click on "Disk Management"
-find the flash drive in the bottom right pane
-right click in the white area of the flash drive
-click "Change drive letters and path..."
-click on "Change"
-Give the drive a letter somewhere near the end of the alphabet

 

[Tim Slattery]

What would cause my Lexar 128 MB USB flash drive to not be detected on
certain machines. I can read it on my XP machine but not on certain other
XP and Windows 98 machines?

The Win98 machines would have to have a driver for that device loaded
before they would detect it. But the XP machines should pick it up
automatically.