Originally posted by Addanc
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One thing which may lead to this issue is if you don't use the "remove hardware" control in windows before disconnecting anything from the USB ports.
Personally I'm pretty lazy so I don't bother
Can anyone confirm that they get this issue whilst ALWAYS going through the correct procedure to remove hardware?Coffee's for closersComment
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostOne thing which may lead to this issue is if you don't use the "remove hardware" control in windows before disconnecting anything from the USB ports.
Personally I'm pretty lazy so I don't bother
Can anyone confirm that they get this issue whilst ALWAYS going through the correct procedure to remove hardware?
However, I have had this problem when allways dong that, but it was on XP.
The problem I had was that I used several different USB sticks on the same PC (not at the same time), every one of them got assigned a different drive letter by XP. At one point, XP got confused and assigned 2 of them the same drive letter. From this point on one of them would not work until I used the drive manager to remove the dirve letter and let XP reassign them different ones again.
Right Click on "My Computer" -> Manage
Once in, Storage -> Disk management.
Don't know why I forgot this earlier.Still InvoicingComment
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Agree with above - teh first place to look is Disk Management - if you can see it as a lump of storage with no drive letter assigned - you're in business. If you can't then it's possibly a more fundamental driver/hardware issue.
Have a look in device manager as you plug it in to see if it tries to load a driver for it...Comment
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Many USB problems are caused by cheap on=board chip sets on PCs and laptops."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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