USB Mass Storage Device Problem

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Hello,
Whenever I plug in my MP3 player or my two flash drives, they are reconized
by Windows and show up in safely remove hardware with no problems at all.
However, when I go into My Computer they do not show up. It will not even
show up in any of my programs (they all want drive letters as well).

It has never done this in Windows XP Home (SP2), it just started recently
doing this with Windows XP Professional (SP2).

I have reinstalled my drivers quite a few times, and my dad has told me it's
most likely not a driver problem, after all my network card works with no
problem at all. After he tried repairing the XP Pro installation with no luck
I went into disk management and it (the USB device) showed up there, without
a disk letter assigned. Well I assigned it a letter, and I could browse it in
Windows Explorer and I could see all my files.

It still would not show up in My Computer. I tried refreshing it and
reopening it, but no luck there. When I restarted my computer to see if that
would work, it went back to having no driver letter assigned.

Please help and thanks in advance!
 
I too have the same exact problem when i try to use my iPod or any usb flash
drive. The devices show up in disk management but not in explorer. I have
searched EVERYWHERE for the fix. I bought a new PCI USB card and that didnt
work either. This is a big problem that many users are experiencing and no
one has provided a fix.
 
No drive letter is assigned any of the storage devices. If I manually assign
one, im still unable to access the drive. Both are formatted correctly and
work fine on other computers.
 
After you assign a letter, are you able to access it with the letter
from the command prompt?
 
No, it says that "this file does not have a program associated with it for
performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control
panel." and I'm trying to work on that right now.

I also tried plugging all the devices into my dad's computer, which is also
running XP Pro (SP2), and they all worked perfectly.
 
Thank you so much! (Wow, I noticed it's mainly when people had that one
program installed on their computer... and guess what I had that program).
 
It basically says to delete some files from \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS

sptd.sys
secdrv.sys
sptd????.sys

The question marks were there to represent 4 numbers because they are
different for each person (or so it seems like it).
 
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