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Travel Drive Reads/Writes but is hidden
Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 12:08 am
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Posted by Nick (9 messages posted)


Well, I've had this PC and Travel drive for quite sometime now and they've always 
acted friendly with eachother.  Until now anyway. 
I recently reformatted my PC 3 weeks ago after messing around with some Linux distros 
before I partitioned the drive fully back onto ntfs for XPhome.  
Anyway, I plug in my travel drive.  The blue light blinks normally.  When I go to 
My Computer.. I don't see Travel Drive(F:) anywhere...

If I go to Run and type in F:, the folder pops up with my stuff.  I'm able to to 
read and write to it, but I have to go to run inorder to access it.

Now, this wouldn't be a problem except, I use PortableApps.com start menu.  I can't 
install new portable apps if I can't find the file(Which would be in F:) through 
the directory browser.

The only thing I did to try to resolve is go to the device manager at the control 
panel and remove the USB Mass Storage device and reboot.  I came back and plugged 
it back in and watched XP NORMALLY install everything like it would do naturally. 
 Nothing unusual here..
But still! When I clicked my computer to see my travel drive, it was still not listed 
where it normally would be. 

Thanks in advance




Responses to this message:
*Screenies of the Annoyance (Nick: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 12:35 am)
*re: Travel Drive Reads/Writes but is hidden (Rich Kurtz: Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 9:56 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Travel Drive Reads/Writes but is hidden (Nick: Sun, Apr 8, 2007, 12:08 am)
*Screenies of the Annoyance (Nick: Sun, Apr 8, 2007, 12:35 am)
-re: Travel Drive Reads/Writes but is hidden (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Apr 8, 2007, 9:56 am)
*re: Travel Drive Reads/Writes but is hidden (Nick: Sun, Apr 8, 2007, 9:02 pm)
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