Usb Drive and Command.exe

Old Perry

Ive a usb drive working perfectly fine, except its not showing up in List Disk in cmd prompt. at first i thought maybe its cause its fat, it recognised my external hd, so i formated the usb to the same ntfs and still no show.

Cmd is running as admin and the internal hd is showing.

cant seem to find anything bar how to make it a bootable drive on google, any ideas why this may be?

SickBoy

It's probably down to the size of the drive, your operating system and weather your operating system considers it to be a removable device.
Removable devices are not displayed in Diskpart using the list disk command.

What OS are you using and how big is the drive?

Old Perry

The os is xp, the usb is 8gb and the internal is 40gb, the laptops about 7 years old but runnin pretty well, it recognized a 3tb hardd also. what size usb stick would it recognize if this was the problem?

Torqay

Are we talking about diskpart?

What exactly do you want to do with the stick?

SickBoy

I'd recommend you do this on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 machine.