pen drive problem

Woden

not much to detail, pen drive when plugged into different slots on xp, when i click on the drive for the files i get the message "please insert disc into drive G"

any ideas whats up with that?

cheers

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tribble

Driver screw up - almost certain.

(it's not a dell is it)

Try remove the pen and restart windows.
If it doesn't work try switch USB slots (could be dodgy USB power).
If it still doesn't work do the same thing only with the pen inserted.
Otherwise remove the USB drivers via the control panel and restart windows.

The pen works in oter computers?

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Woden

its a custom build, have tried different usb slots so no joy there, shouldn't be power as the usb slot is powering something else ok.

haven't had a chance to try it on another pc but i'll try removing the usb ports and have windows install them again, thanks for the suggestion

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joePC

If this has just happened Now, Restart the PC and all shoudl be well,

Otherwise drive problem,

XP should install it AUTO

Do you have the USB2 update from windoze update?

Thanks JoePC

Woden

nah it happened a few days ago and i've restarted a few times since then

i removed all usb stuff from the control panel with the drive plugged out and then scanned for hardware changes where it promptly installed all the usb stuff again. i then put the pen drive back in but got the same message.

all windows updates are installed on the computer and usb 2 is working

cheers

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SLIM19198

try to format the pen drive, might just be corrupt partition!

Woden

yeah i was hoping to avoid the format as there is some stuff on it, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if i lost it i'll give it a try

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edit i can't format it as when i right click on it and click format it says there is no disc in the drive

Stephen

Have you tried it in a different PC?

Woden

not yet as i haven't been down to my friends house in the last few days this will be my next step though, would have tried it first if he was around

SLIM19198

treat it like a hard disk and delete and recreate the partition on it.