USB mass storage Stick problems

Ishay Barat

As I am working in a large Hospital and move daily between several
departments I use a USB Stick on several PCs. Until last week all was fine.
But since than my Laptop would not recognize the Stick an than another
Desktop PC followed. The other PCs I am using works OK with the stick.

When I look at the 'Safe hardware Removal' icon, I can se that the unit is
recognized as 'storage device', but the device does not appear on the
Explorer driver list. No matter how many times I remove and connect the
stick and shut the PC or the laptop, the thing does not appear in the
Explorer.



Any body has a clue?


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John Wunderlich

"Ishay Barat" <i.b@dadlnet.dk> wrote in
news:4818e17e$0$27363$ba624c82@nntp06.dk.telia.net :

> As I am working in a large Hospital and move daily between several
> departments I use a USB Stick on several PCs. Until last week all
> was fine. But since than my Laptop would not recognize the Stick
> an than another Desktop PC followed. The other PCs I am using
> works OK with the stick.
>
> When I look at the 'Safe hardware Removal' icon, I can se that the
> unit is recognized as 'storage device', but the device does not
> appear on the Explorer driver list. No matter how many times I
> remove and connect the stick and shut the PC or the laptop, the
> thing does not appear in the Explorer.
>
>
>
> Any body has a clue?
>
>

If the computer has mapped a network drive to a low letter, then the
USB drive can attempt to use the same letter and will lose out to the
network connection. Use Disk Manager to give the USB drive a different
drive letter or, better yet, map your network drives to high drive
letters:

<http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html>

HTH,
John