Mysterious additional drives!

[Nanouk]

Hi all

Whenever I add an addtional USB device - digital camera or card reader it
alawys shows up in Explorer as 2 drives. ie in my case drives J: and K: and
another one is L: and M:.

Is there any reason for the system duplicating these devices and any way to
stop it?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Thanx

nanouk

 

[JRS]

does the reader or camera contain more than one card slot?

If so that will be the reason. My 7 slot card reader generates about 5
drives.

Jon

 

[John Doue]

Hi all

Whenever I add an addtional USB device - digital camera or card reader it
alawys shows up in Explorer as 2 drives. ie in my case drives J: and K: and
another one is L: and M:.

Is there any reason for the system duplicating these devices and any way to
stop it?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Thanx

nanouk

Did you install XP SP1 recently?

 

[Nanouk]

Hi

Thanks to JRS and John. The reader does have 4 slots. I haven't installed
SP1 since the original installation of XP but there have been many
updates/patches, etc.

I guess it's all down to the multi-slot situation.

Nanouk