Rob, Your Cruzer Mini may not be mounting because another device is using the same drive letter as the Cruzer has used in the past - this has happened to me on more than one occasion on WINXP. The tell-tail sign from my experience is that the Cruzer device will be visible in "Unplug or Eject Hardware", but its file system will not visible to Explorer.
My recollection is that you have to go into "Admin Tools" under "Computer Management" and use "Storage --> Disk Management" to re-assign a drive letter for the Cruzer. This problem can come and go depending on your system config and hardware. Also, you may want to try that Cruzer in a couple of other PCs before giving up on it. Like Fred, I always try to use "Unplug or Eject Hardware" to gracefully remove the so-called Plug-and-Pray USB Mass Storage Devices. When I was lazy or impatient, I occasionally wound up with corrupted files. _jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Finger HWG Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:20 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] USB Flash Drive Hello all, My Sandisk Cruzer Mini died on me this weekend. Light will not come on and will not mount. So I am on the hunt. I was looking at the Sandisk Titanium but some people have said it does not fit right in recessed USB ports. My Dell D800 has what I think is recessed usb ports. Also they said the slide mechanism is not that great. Sandisk Micro was also on the list which is probably the front runner right now. I would like to get the opinion of the collective. I also seem to remember some that mount a 1.44 partition on the drive as an A drive which could be very useful. Anyone ever seen any like this. I had a 256 so a 512 would be better. I have also thought about a iPod Shuffle but sometimes I work on Win9x machines and I don't know if this would work. TIA, Rob
