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Usb Flash Drive Doesnt Work!

Discussion in 'Storage and Networking' started by kanazky, Jan 23, 2008.

  1. kanazky Newcomer, in training

    My USB Flash drive works fine on my work laptop but when I bring it home to this computer it never installs driver... Picture explains.

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    kanazky, Jan 23, 2008
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  2. dgower2 TechSpot Maniac Posts: 340

    The picture is too small - can't really see anything.

    I have the opposite issue - my home computer works fine, but my work computer will not detect the thumb drives automatically. Every time I plug a thumb drive in at work, I need to open Device Manager and scan for changes - then it detects it (98% of the time). I never figured out why this happens, but it wasn't always like that.
    dgower2, Jan 23, 2008
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  3. kimsland Ex-TechSpotter Posts: 18,353

    One possibility:

    The USB flash drive will use the next hard drive letter.
    Therefore if you have C harddrive then D HardDrive it will be assigned to E

    But

    If E is already assigned to a network drive then the USB drive sometimes will not innitialize and assign a drive letter.

    To get around this, assign any network drives (or mapping) to a drive letter that is further down ie N drive, this in turn will allow the flash drive to be mounted.
    kimsland, Jan 23, 2008
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  4. dgower2 TechSpot Maniac Posts: 340

    I just checked my drive mappings and E was free. I moved the drive mapped to F to Z and tried - no dice. Good thinking though.
    dgower2, Jan 23, 2008
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