I have a problem with usb drive

**trutech781** · March 21st, 2007, 05:58 PM

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** · March 21st, 2007, 07:09 PM

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** · March 22nd, 2007, 07:41 AM

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

**NooNoo** · March 22nd, 2007, 07:49 AM

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

**trutech781** · March 22nd, 2007, 08:16 AM

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** · March 22nd, 2007, 09:43 AM

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

**trutech781** · March 22nd, 2007, 01:12 PM

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

**NooNoo** · March 22nd, 2007, 05:10 PM

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

**trutech781** · March 22nd, 2007, 05:29 PM

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** · March 22nd, 2007, 05:32 PM

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** · March 22nd, 2007, 05:34 PM

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

**NooNoo** · March 22nd, 2007, 05:36 PM

what do you mean... the other drive?

**trutech781** · March 22nd, 2007, 05:39 PM

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?