Hi all,
I've spent the past six hours trying to work out a USB Flash Drive mapping (and mount/dismount) problem in Windows 2003 (standard). I have been browsing around and found problems with conflicting mapped network drives, conflicting smart card readers etc... but my problem seems to be a bit different.
To be clear on what I've tried here's a list:
1. Close and re-open Windows Explorer
2. Uninstall and re-install all USB controller devices out of the device manager.
3. Re-assigned the drive letter for the removable device via disk manager (i.e. made the device drive Z)
4. updated bios to latest revision (from MAR 2002) I'm using a relatively older system 700MHz - AMD Duron system on a Gigabyte board.
Things I've checked
BIOS Settings: OK - USB support enabled
Drive mapping: NO Network drives are mapped
Just 1 HD (C) and a CDROM (D) and burner (E)
WHEN THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING THE FLASH DRIVE & MAPPING A DRIVE LETTER (F in my case) IN WIN EXPLORER:
1. When the flash drive is plugged in while the computer is booting
2. When the disk manager is open - must be the active window within the computer management console. (I can mount and dismount the drive time after time without any problems). As soon as I close the disk manager (and computer management console), that's when re-mounting the flash drive fails.
WHEN THERE ARE PROBLEMS:
1. After Windows is loaded, then unplugging the flash drive... Dismount is fine. Once re-inserting the flash drive, the mount fails at some point and the drive doesn't get mapped. NOTE: If I manually type in F:\ in the location bar, I can read and write to the drive, however it is never acknowledged by win explorer... It shows up as a blank with no name or description. Once unplugged, the drive fails to dismount and Windows gets hung up when trying to shut down/restart.
There is nothing wrong with this flash drive, as it works in other computers I've tried it on. In fact, I have no problem with this drive on my laptop which also has Win 2003 Standard installed (this laptop is also older @ 700MHz - Cyrix system). I checked all the settings in the "disk manager" and "Removable storage" and everything is the same...
I've done exausted all my steam!
Any ideas? Please let me know if I'm not clear with my problem.
Thanks,
Mike
I've spent the past six hours trying to work out a USB Flash Drive mapping (and mount/dismount) problem in Windows 2003 (standard). I have been browsing around and found problems with conflicting mapped network drives, conflicting smart card readers etc... but my problem seems to be a bit different.
To be clear on what I've tried here's a list:
1. Close and re-open Windows Explorer
2. Uninstall and re-install all USB controller devices out of the device manager.
3. Re-assigned the drive letter for the removable device via disk manager (i.e. made the device drive Z)
4. updated bios to latest revision (from MAR 2002) I'm using a relatively older system 700MHz - AMD Duron system on a Gigabyte board.
Things I've checked
BIOS Settings: OK - USB support enabled
Drive mapping: NO Network drives are mapped
Just 1 HD (C) and a CDROM (D) and burner (E)
WHEN THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING THE FLASH DRIVE & MAPPING A DRIVE LETTER (F in my case) IN WIN EXPLORER:
1. When the flash drive is plugged in while the computer is booting
2. When the disk manager is open - must be the active window within the computer management console. (I can mount and dismount the drive time after time without any problems). As soon as I close the disk manager (and computer management console), that's when re-mounting the flash drive fails.
WHEN THERE ARE PROBLEMS:
1. After Windows is loaded, then unplugging the flash drive... Dismount is fine. Once re-inserting the flash drive, the mount fails at some point and the drive doesn't get mapped. NOTE: If I manually type in F:\ in the location bar, I can read and write to the drive, however it is never acknowledged by win explorer... It shows up as a blank with no name or description. Once unplugged, the drive fails to dismount and Windows gets hung up when trying to shut down/restart.
There is nothing wrong with this flash drive, as it works in other computers I've tried it on. In fact, I have no problem with this drive on my laptop which also has Win 2003 Standard installed (this laptop is also older @ 700MHz - Cyrix system). I checked all the settings in the "disk manager" and "Removable storage" and everything is the same...
I've done exausted all my steam!
Any ideas? Please let me know if I'm not clear with my problem.
Thanks,
Mike