I am not able to access my usb pen drive or indeed my usb mp3 player through
'My Computer'.
I have windows XP sp 2 installed.The problem seems to have arisen since I
upgraded my motherboard/CPU from a Asus P3V4X/Pentium III 800 mhz Slot 1 to
an Asrock AM2NF3VSTA/Athlon 64 3200+. I did a repair windows install. I have
installed the latest m/b usb drivers and flashed the bios to the latest
version.
Whenever I plug my pen drive, it correctly shows "safely remove" icon in the
taskbar but My Computer does not show USB drive letter. Other usb devices
(Canon camera and Epson scanner) work ok through their own software.
If I want to access the Pen drive I can do a work around through admin
tools - disk management. Here I can see the drive and assign a letter to it
and access it from within this program. The drive remains invisible in My
Computer.
Does anyone know how can I solve this problem ? thanks, Neddy
"bren" <brenpreeceremove@tesco.net> wrote in message
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>I am not able to access my usb pen drive or indeed my usb mp3 player
>through 'My Computer'.
>
> I have windows XP sp 2 installed.The problem seems to have arisen
> since I upgraded my motherboard/CPU from a Asus P3V4X/Pentium III
> 800 mhz Slot 1 to an Asrock AM2NF3VSTA/Athlon 64 3200+. I did a
> repair windows install. I have installed the latest m/b usb drivers
> and flashed the bios to the latest version.
>
> Whenever I plug my pen drive, it correctly shows "safely remove"
> icon in the taskbar but My Computer does not show USB drive letter.
> Other usb devices (Canon camera and Epson scanner) work ok through
> their own software.
>
> If I want to access the Pen drive I can do a work around through
> admin tools - disk management. Here I can see the drive and assign a
> letter to it and access it from within this program. The drive
> remains invisible in My Computer.
>
> Does anyone know how can I solve this problem ? thanks, Neddy
See if it`s registered in computer management.
Rt/click My Computer/Manage /Disk management...
Your problem is probably caused by repairing windows instead of doing a fresh install.
Of the 2 c2duo Asrock boards that I've installed, both suffered niggly & intermitant faults including usb problems,
which a fresh install cured.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:32:12 GMT, "bren"
<brenpreeceremove@tesco.net> wrote:
>I am not able to access my usb pen drive or indeed my usb mp3 player through
>'My Computer'.
>
>I have windows XP sp 2 installed.The problem seems to have arisen since I
>upgraded my motherboard/CPU from a Asus P3V4X/Pentium III 800 mhz Slot 1 to
>an Asrock AM2NF3VSTA/Athlon 64 3200+. I did a repair windows install. I have
>installed the latest m/b usb drivers and flashed the bios to the latest
>version.
>
>Whenever I plug my pen drive, it correctly shows "safely remove" icon in the
>taskbar but My Computer does not show USB drive letter. Other usb devices
>(Canon camera and Epson scanner) work ok through their own software.
>
>If I want to access the Pen drive I can do a work around through admin
>tools - disk management. Here I can see the drive and assign a letter to it
>and access it from within this program.
What exactly do you mean by "access it"?
>The drive remains invisible in My
>Computer.
>
>Does anyone know how can I solve this problem ? thanks, Neddy
>
When you see these volumes in Disk Management, do they show
as having a valid filesystem? If not, that would account
for lack of listing in My Computer. You might now take them
to another known properly-working system to see if that
system can see the drive/filesystem/files, or not. If there
is nothing of value on the pen drive or MP3 player, you
might try reformatting them. Some such devices have special
utilities to do the formatting, I try to avoid those so I
dont' know if trying to initiate a manual format could
cause any problems, thus I suggest you investigate this per
your particular make and model of products.
If all else fails, check Device Manager, then removing the
USB entries and letting windows redetect then upon reboot,
then supplying the drivers.
"bren" <brenpreeceremove@tesco.net> wrote in message
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>I am not able to access my usb pen drive or indeed my usb mp3 player
>through 'My Computer'.
>
> I have windows XP sp 2 installed.The problem seems to have arisen since I
> upgraded my motherboard/CPU from a Asus P3V4X/Pentium III 800 mhz Slot 1
> to an Asrock AM2NF3VSTA/Athlon 64 3200+. I did a repair windows install. I
> have installed the latest m/b usb drivers and flashed the bios to the
> latest version.
>
> Whenever I plug my pen drive, it correctly shows "safely remove" icon in
> the taskbar but My Computer does not show USB drive letter. Other usb
> devices (Canon camera and Epson scanner) work ok through their own
> software.
>
> If I want to access the Pen drive I can do a work around through admin
> tools - disk management. Here I can see the drive and assign a letter to
> it and access it from within this program. The drive remains invisible in
> My Computer.
>
> Does anyone know how can I solve this problem ? thanks, Neddy
>
Same here, I changed, my motherboard, and did some violence to windows
reinstalling the original system disk over an sp2 installation (I did
not want to start from scratch), hence re-installing the SP2.
I got a ton of error message of course for the dll versions, but in
the end evriting did work, but that: the USB pen drive are not
reconized.
The funny thing is that explorer and the Creative driver of my mp3
player were not seeing any usb drive, while i could:
- mount them assigning a letter by hand with the system management
tool from control panel
- access the disk from a DOS window!
- acces the files with other programs, e.g. I use xplorer2 and it uses
the disk wioth no problem
the funny thing is that if I had the tree view disabled I could type
say "F:" in the url field and access the file content even from
explorer, but as soon as I would expand the tree view in the same
windowm explorer would not know any more how to deal with that device,
posibbly not knowing her to locate it in its tree
Now I have fixed it using the hint given above. Summarizing from MS KB
you see that if you open the registry and delete the two keys
Usb pen drive invisible 
Linear Mode
