usb drive not shown

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jim sturtz

hi,

i am using WinXP, sp1.

i recently purchased an external 'mini' usb drive. it is a Firefly from
Smartdisk. the drive seems to work fine. i can see it when i rite-clik my
computer|manage|disk management. the drive shows as disk 2, says it is
online & healthy. i assigned drive L to it.

if i go to dos i can type 'L:' and get to the drive, even 'copy c:\.' and
copy bunches of stuff to it.

but i cannot seem to 'see' it thru windows. my computer shows lots of
drives (my 2 internal drives and their partitions c,d,e,f,w,z), several
mapped network drives g,h,j,p,q and my dvd & cd roms r & s. but no 'L'. i
noticed a similar problem recently and posted about it, with no reply yet,
when i mapped a network drive to 'K:'. it too doesnt show as an available
driver altho i can access it via dos.

can someone explain how to fix this? its almost as if Windows is not
letting me use certain letters, but i have no clue which i can or cant.
when i chose the 'L' monicker for the drive it came from a windows
assignment picklist.

thanks.

jim
 
Have you installed and used TweakUI ?? In it, there'a a possibility to hide
drive letters..


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tom,

seems like that may have been the problem. i have TweakUI installed. i do
not recall 'unchecking' any particular drives letters, but the L drive wasnt
checked so i did so. when i looked at my computer then, the USB drive as L:
now shows up. TUI diddles the registry settings i believe, any idea where
this is in it?

thanks.

jim
 
Me? Not a clue as to where in the reg it does this stuff...


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