Jump Drive won't display in Windows Explorer or Computer

[Guest]

I recently upgraded my mother board to one that has 4 usb ports. My mouse,
joystick, and printer all work fine in those ports. When I plug in my jump
drive, it does not display in Windows Explorer or My Computer. However, I
know it's there because I can find it in Computer Management, Disk
Management. I can copy files to and from it, etc. I can back up my MS Money
file to it (Drive F but My Computer and Windows Explorer never show Drive
F: I tried removing the other usb items with no difference. I also plugged in
another jump drive with same results. Very much appreciate some help with
this puzzle. Thanks...

 

[Richard Urban]

Plug in your thumb drive. Go to disk management. Find the drive. Right
click. Change drive letter. Change it to another drive letter (suggest drive
R: for removable). Reboot. It should show up in Explorer now.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Richard. Well I did that and it did not help. I also tried
uninstalling the jump drive and then letting it automatically reinstall at
boot. Came back in as F: I downloaded a shareware file transfer program and
it sees the drive with no problem and it works fine so the problem seems
specific to Windows. Appreciate any other suggestions.

Ken

 

[Uwe Sieber]

When I plug in my jump
drive, it does not display in Windows Explorer or My Computer. However, I
know it's there because I can find it in Computer Management, Disk
Management.

Using MS 'Tweak UI' you can check if there drives
which the display is locked for:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

My Computer -> Drives

If this doesn't help, you can try to mount the drive
into an empty NTFS folder in the Disk Management.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe