Worked like a champ.
It'd sure be simpler if XP would assign the next available letter,
but what the heck ...
Thanks.
Scott Allen wrote:
> With the 512 installed. Try this. Right click on My Computer. Choose
> 'Manage'. Click on 'Disk Management'. Do you see the 512? If so, you can
> right click on it and change the drive letter.
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> On 7/9/07, john.messeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I've searched around trying to find an answer, and I'm hoping someone
>> will have a hint for this non-Treo question:
>> I have a 2Gb thumb drive and a 512Mb thumbdrive. On my laptop
>> (Inspiron 6000), the 2g shows as Drive K. The 512 shows as Drive M. If
>> I put an SD card in the slot it appears as E. If I stick a CF card in
>> the PCMCIA adaptor slot, it also shows as E. (I should try them
>> simultaneously to see what they do.)
>> Here it comes: on the PC at work, the 2Gb thumb drive shows as F,
>> BUT THE 512 doesn't show at all. The comptuer beeps, and the device
>> manager says all the USB ports are working fine, but the darn drive in
>> inaccessible. I sat a while ago and went through trying to log to each
>> drive letter, not already assigned, and zip, nada, nothing.
>> I've seen this problem elsewhere. I've seen an SD that works in
>> one computer not be usable in another. USB slots on the back of the
>> computer work with one device but not another, and the USB ports on
>> the front of the machine work the other way.
>> Anybody got any idea what the problem is, and what to do about it?
>> It's driving me up a wall, especially last night when I forgot to take
>> my 2g to work with me and tried to use the 512 to sneaker-net some
>> files into the company system and the darn desktop machine wouldn't
>> display the drive.
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