I have a problem with usb drive

[trutech781]

I reinstalled xpsp2 and now flashdrive doesnt work when plugged in. Ive tried two different kinds. I reinstalled the chipset drivers and still doesnt work. I have a optiplex 270. Can someone help me

[NooNoo]

Have a look at the top of the usb forum for the sticky... there is a link to a very useful tool which should help you sort out what's wrong.

Do you get the double bleep when you plug it in? In computer management> disk management, does it show up there without a drive letter?

[trutech781]

It makes that one dongle noise. Yes it shows up without a letter

[NooNoo]

so it is working... tried right clicking on it in disk management and assigning a drive letter?

[trutech781]

I did that and its still assigned to the other drives i see the safely remove hardware icon on the tray but thats it no drive is shown?

[NooNoo]

other drives? Are you saying you have no spare drive letters?

[trutech781]

the flash drive isnt showning at all just as a remove hardware under system tray

[NooNoo]

errrm, in disk management, you said it was showing up... have you downloaded that utility yet?

[trutech781]

yeah I assigned a letter for it and I can open it from disk managment,but why doesn't appear with my other drives? maybe I got it configured wrong here is the ini config:

[Settings]

;this activates balloon tips and sets their show duration in milliseconds
ShowBalloonTips=1
BalloonTipTimeout=4000


;here you can let USBDLM remove driveletters of cardreaders as long
;as there is no media present
NoMediaNoLetter=0


;here you can let USBDLM execute the open= line in an autorun.inf file
;on the attached drive
AutoRunEnabled=1

;here you can define a key for the AutoRun feature; Only if the same line
;is found in the autorun.inf file then the open= line is executed
AutoRunKey=



;here you can let USBDLM write a logfile, default is _USBDLM.LOG in the USBDLM folder
WriteLogFile=0
LogFile=
LogLevel=3



;here you can change the balloontip text to your language, default is english
Text_drives=
Text_partitions=
Text_media=
Text_mounted_to=
Text_and=



;-------------------------- the drive letters ---------------------------------

;here you can define new default drive letter for USB drives
[DriveLetters]
Letter1=I
Letter2=J
Letter3=K


;here you can define new default drive letter for USB drives with a
;certain minimum size in megabytes
[DriveLettersSize1]
MinSizeMB=
Letter1=
Letter2=
Letter3=


;here you can define new default drive letters for multislot card readers
[MultiSlotCardReaders]
Letter1=
Letter2=
Letter3=


;these letters are excluded, USBDLM will assign a different letter when
;XP assingns one of these to USB or FireWire drives
[ExcludedLetters]
Letter1=C
Letter2=D
Letter3=G



;many other options are documented in the Help files

[NooNoo]

So the drive doesn't show up in disk management and doesn't show up in the utility? Have you tried it in another machine?

[trutech781]

It shows up in disk managment now. I can open it from there. Why doesnt it show up with the other drive though?

[NooNoo]

what do you mean... the other drive?

[trutech781]

I have 3 hard drives. Normally, when I plugged in a flash drive,it showed up as another drive along with the other hd drives in my computer. Now that I've reinstall xp sp2 I don't see it under my computer. I have to go to disk management to open the flashdrive. How can I fix this?

[NooNoo]

Assign a drive letter to the flash drive.

[trutech781]

I did and it still isnt showing up under my computer

[NooNoo]

What drive letter did you assign? What other drive letters are assigned to which devices?

[trutech781]

c: ntfs drive Ide 37gig
f: fat flash drive 16 gig
d: ntfs ide 80 gig
g ntfs sata 200 gig

[CCT]

Now that this thread has gone a couple days and still no fix I'll offer my probably bad advice:

This site discusses a very similar issue:

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/31147-usb-removable-memory-not-accessible-explorer-given-drive-letter.html

and thus refers to this:

http://www.duplexsecure.com/en/faq

which says to do this:

"A: If your system has some problems with SPTD installation you can do as follows:

If your system is already running then go to step 2 directly. Otherwise start from step 1.

Step 1. Boot in safe mode and press ESC key when you see on bottom line of display: "Press ESC to cancel loading SPTD.sys". This will abort loading of SPTD layer.
Step 2. Find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Services\sptd" registry key in REGEDIT and set DWORD Start value to 4 (i.e. disabled).
Step 3. Reboot again in normal mode and check if your issue is solved.

To reenable SPTD restore the DWORD Start value back to '0' and reboot your computer."

NOTE: In my comp I have CurrentControlSet0001, 0002 and 0003 BUT use 0001 if you have that.

Note: In my comp the DWord Start value is set at 0 now - check your BEFORE you change it.

Note: Never hurts to set a restore point BEFORE messing in the registry.

gl

[NooNoo]

You have a 16GB flash drive?

[slgrieb]

Certainly is a good week for strangeness! I don't suppose you've used any software to repartition the drive, create hidden partitions or the like? I know Corsair supplies this on their 16 GB drives. I've also seen a couple of reviews that suggest OCZ 16 GB drives may exhibit some strange performance issues (mostly slow transfers).