XP fails to assign drive letter to USB Card Reader

[Doug Von Gausig]

Running XP Pro, SP2 - my flash card reader fails to show up in Windows
Explorer, since XP fails to assign a drive letter to it. Whenever I
want to use the reader I have to go through the "My Computer-Manage-
Disk Management" routine to assign a new drive letter to it (it's
always "G:"). Everything else indicates that the reader is functioning
correctly, and it is useable as soon as I assign a new drive letter to
it. When I remove the media, it loses it's drive letter again.

Any ideas?

Doug

 

[Galen]

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Running XP Pro, SP2 - my flash card reader fails to show up in Windows
Explorer, since XP fails to assign a drive letter to it. Whenever I
want to use the reader I have to go through the "My Computer-Manage-
Disk Management" routine to assign a new drive letter to it (it's
always "G:"). Everything else indicates that the reader is functioning
correctly, and it is useable as soon as I assign a new drive letter to
it. When I remove the media, it loses it's drive letter again.

Any ideas?

Doug

This is not entirely uncommon and the only fix I've seen that seems to work
is taking one of the other drives, assigning it a higher drive letter,
inserting the USB HDD, and then opting to assign it a lower drive letter
assignment. I'd give that a shot first if no one else has a fix on hand.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Doug Von Gausig]

In Doug Von Gausig <[email protected]> had this to say:

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This is not entirely uncommon and the only fix I've seen that seems to work
is taking one of the other drives, assigning it a higher drive letter,
inserting the USB HDD, and then opting to assign it a lower drive letter
assignment. I'd give that a shot first if no one else has a fix on hand.

Galen

Is this something unique to SanDisk card readers, or to systems with
external hard drives, or any other common trait?

Thanks,
Doug

 

[Galen]

In Doug Von Gausig <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Is this something unique to SanDisk card readers, or to systems with
external hard drives, or any other common trait?

Thanks,
Doug

It seems to crop up with USB Hard Drives most often but there have been
posts with it having the trouble on card readers or even cameras hooked up
by USB directly. (Thus my failure to edit the cut/paste to say flash card
reader.) Assigning it a low letter and moving another drive to another
letter seems to be the fix for it. I don't know why, I just know that it's
worked with a number of people thus far. Did it work for you?

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes