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I use USB disc drives for backing up my workstation. However I have run into
a problem.
I guess that for every drive I use, XP keeps an entry somewhere in it's
registry to identify that drive in the furture.
I think I've hit some sort of limit as I don't seem to be able to mount any
new drives, and in fact even drives I have previously used cannot be mounted.
The connected drive shows up as a USB Mass storage device as it always has,
but it doesn't get assigned a drive letter and it doesn't show up in Disk
Management.
I know it's not the drives, the USB Mass Storage adaptor and it's not the
USB I/F card as I have tried them all in another PC and everything works.
So...what is the limit, what is stopping my workstation from seeing anymore
USB drives ? How do I get it working again ? How do I stop it happening
again in the future ?
I am using WinXP Pro SP2 with ll the latest patches.
The drives are formatted as NTFS Basic volume with one Primary Partition.
a problem.
I guess that for every drive I use, XP keeps an entry somewhere in it's
registry to identify that drive in the furture.
I think I've hit some sort of limit as I don't seem to be able to mount any
new drives, and in fact even drives I have previously used cannot be mounted.
The connected drive shows up as a USB Mass storage device as it always has,
but it doesn't get assigned a drive letter and it doesn't show up in Disk
Management.
I know it's not the drives, the USB Mass Storage adaptor and it's not the
USB I/F card as I have tried them all in another PC and everything works.
So...what is the limit, what is stopping my workstation from seeing anymore
USB drives ? How do I get it working again ? How do I stop it happening
again in the future ?
I am using WinXP Pro SP2 with ll the latest patches.
The drives are formatted as NTFS Basic volume with one Primary Partition.