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Removable storage drives don't display in 'My Computer'

May 11, 2006 12:23AM PDT

They stopped being recognized when I upgraded to XP Pro x64, so I assumed it was a driver issue. I updated everything, to no avail. I checked the internal connections, they are ok. The card reader is internal and connected internally with USB. It recognizes my printer (on every port), it's hooked up via USB, but it won't display USB flash drives under removable storage in 'My Computer'.

Everything in Device Manager checks out, I uninstalled and reinstalled all the drivers. The drives show up there, but don't display in 'My Computer'.

I've downloaded Tweak UI, and question marks (?) show up by all the drives except my hard disk, floppy drive and DVD drive.

How can I access these drives if they don't dispaly anywhere?

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Tell how you updated drivers?
May 11, 2006 12:31AM PDT

Did you ask Microsoft? If so or used their update driver button, you didn't accomplish getting drivers for your hardware.

It's a common problem which you only need to find and install the drivers to fix (if they exist.)

Bob

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Drivers
May 11, 2006 1:30AM PDT

Thanks for the quick reply. I did not use Microsfot to update my drivers. ASUS (motherboard) had a utility that automatically updated some drivers and flashed the BIOS. Others I installed manually through Device Manager, I selected update driver from a specific location, I specified the location where I had downloaded the latest drivers, and they installed successfully.

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That's better but still leaves some doubt.
May 11, 2006 2:56AM PDT

Use the old school method where you download the driver package (motherboard drivers for XP64) and install that.

Those "click-here" updaters are not reliable.

Bob