I've only seen that with devices which don't have a decent driver for the device OR the format of the device is incompatible.
-ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Len Hammond <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:13:24 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Subject: Re: External Drives I have seen the same kind of thing with both USB thumb drives and USB connected Hard drives. You need an open drive letter between the last physical drive letter used on the machine and the next mapped drive letter or there is a problem of not finding the USB drive. Have seen this same issue on XP as well as 7. Never tried it on Vista as I used Vista very little in the migration from XP to 7. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland [email protected] On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote: > As I recall I had that behavior because another drive was attached and the > windows disk management was confused. In my case it was a mapped network > share, and I just exited Disk Managment, disconnected the physical drive, > unmapped the network drive and plugged the physical back in. > But it's been a a while since I've seen that behavior (especially since I > moved all network drives to above h:). > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Steve Ens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone come across a USB drive that gets recognized by Windows 7, but >> doesn't get a drive letter assigned? I have a stubborn Seagate that works >> on XP and OSX, but not 7. I've tried manually assigning a letter but that >> is greyed out. The only option I get is to convert to dynamic, but that >> gets me an error too. Any ideas appreciated. >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
