Flash Drives (USB) not working when logged into the network

[jhunter]

My flash drives work great, on my computer, as long as I'm not logged
into our SBS2000 network (I unplug my network cable and reboot and
they work great). Here's what I've tried...

- Both flash drives are fine (they work in other WinXP computers AND
mine when I'm not connected to the network)
- I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)
- I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)
- I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive (in Disk
Management)
- The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter, on
my computer while logged into the network, but it physically takes 15
minutes for this process to happen
- I can actually access the flash drives (on my computer) but it
physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it takes a second or two on
other WinXP machines)
- I've disabled all startup programs (via MSConfig) but that doesn't
help
- The flash drives work great on other WinXP computers logged into the
same SBS2000 network

Note: I only test/try one flash drive at any one time.


Anybody have any ideas?

 

[smlunatick]

My flash drives work great, on my computer, as long as I'm not logged
into our SBS2000 network (I unplug my network cable and reboot and
they work great). Here's what I've tried...

- Both flash drives are fine (they work in other WinXP computers AND
mine when I'm not connected to the network)
- I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)
- I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)
- I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive (in Disk
Management)
- The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter, on
my computer while logged into the network, but it physically takes 15
minutes for this process to happen
- I can actually access the flash drives (on my computer) but it
physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it takes a second or two on
other WinXP machines)
- I've disabled all startup programs (via MSConfig) but that doesn't
help
- The flash drives work great on other WinXP computers logged into the
same SBS2000 network

Note: I only test/try one flash drive at any one time.

Anybody have any ideas?

Problem is that Windwos XP will start assigning drive letters from D
to Z. This seems to also be that case when attaching to networks /
servers. Look at this: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

This will help to let you map the USB drives by letting you to reserve
letters outside of the network drives letters.

 

[jhunter]

It's NOT that I can't get a drive letter assigned the USB flash drive
(or the network for that matter). It's just that the USB flash drive
takes 15 minutes to open when I'm logged in. And all the network
drives work great.

 

[JockoBailey]

My flash drives work great, on my computer, as long as I'm not logged
into our SBS2000 network (I unplug my network cable and reboot and
they work great). Here's what I've tried...

- Both flash drives are fine (they work in other WinXP computers AND
mine when I'm not connected to the network)
- I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)
- I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)
- I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive (in Disk
Management)
- The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter, on
my computer while logged into the network, but it physically takes 15
minutes for this process to happen
- I can actually access the flash drives (on my computer) but it
physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it takes a second or two on
other WinXP machines)
- I've disabled all startup programs (via MSConfig) but that doesn't
help
- The flash drives work great on other WinXP computers logged into the
same SBS2000 network

Note: I only test/try one flash drive at any one time.


Anybody have any ideas?

Ask your Network Administrator if he has disabled USB drives through Group
Policy.

 

[jhunter]

No he hasn't disabled USB drives. And, these flash drives have worked
correctly on my computer for the last year.

 

[Frankly Scarlett]

I've run into this sort of problem with using USB drives on my networked
desktop.
My situation is my desktop has 2 physical drives with one of them having a
restore partition. (C:, D:, and E
I have a DVD burner (F
The network account I log with assigns G:, H:, I:, and J:. (Novell NetWare)
It also assigns P:, Q:, R:, T:, U:, Y:, and Z:.
Not many letters left over. (K:, L:, M:, N:, O:,S:, V:, W
I've had a couple of USB drives that try to become G:, but Windows keeps
displaying the network drives.
One USB drive in particular was encrypted and wanted to map to two drives
with adjacent letters.
I ended up re-formatting it to one drive (no encryption) and then used
Windows to map it to M:
From there, it works "Fat, Dumb, and Happy".
I don't know if this will work under your situation, but it did for mine.

 

[jhunter]

Resolution

I tried everything I could think of to fix my USB flash drive problem.
Nothing worked until I simply turned my USB printer (HP Color LaserJet
1600) off. Once I did, THEN plugged my USB flash drive in, everything
worked normally. When I'm finished with my USB flash drive, I simply
unplug it and turn my printer back on.