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Originally Posted by Bluemouse
WAHAHAHAHA FIXED IT!
It had something to do with the registry, and nothing to do with the drivers at all.
**** EXPORT THE SELECTED FOLDERS BEFORE DOING THIS ****
1) Go into start -> run -> regedit -> hit ok
2) Navigate to:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevice1]
3)file -> export (the mounteddevices1 folder)
4) delete all the dosdevices drives (ie \dosdevices\C 
5) I cant remember if i did it to the "mountd devices" folder too, so dont do it at first but if it doesnt work then do it after
6) go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
7) Export this too
8) delete the upperfilter key
9) reboot and try plugging in your device.
This actually didnt work for me when i tried it, but then i tried plugging in my device an hour later and it worked flawlessly (all 3 flash drives)
Hope this helps! Your registry may be slightly different, but look in there, there are probably a bunch of keys that are screwing it up.
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I've got the same problem with my thumb drives not showing up in Windows Explorer so I was really excited when I saw your post. I saved the registry folders that you said to back up but after I destroyed my registry, XP wouldn't boot and I didn't know how to restore them.
:P So I booted in safe mode and restored a Restore Point. That got the registry restored and XP booting again. I probably should have been more cautious but I deleted all the \??\Volume entries and a lot of the ones below those like (ie \dosdevices\C
. I really hope I can figure out how to tailor your fix to my machine and get the auto-drive assignment working again.
Moral of the story: Don't delete registry entries unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing.
10-09-2006
Usb Flash Drive/Thumb drives problems
