You could try going into Control Panel, administrative tools, Computer management, 
Storage, Disk Management (Local), and setting the drive letter of the USB drive to 
something much further down in the alphabet, like M or N, then reboot, and see if 
it shows up as an icon then.







On Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 8:47 am, Brian Levy wrote:

>I've also got a problem with a USB harddrive. Wehn plugged in, the icon will not 

>show in My Computers but, I can use the Nero Backup application to write to it and 

>it shows up in the hardware manager and when I click the USB stop it also shows 
up. 

> I've looked at the threads and thought about the High Filters solution proposed 

>but when I plug in my MP3/flash drive, it comes up on the My Computer directory, 

>the Hardware Manager adn USB stop all as E: drive and the HD then moves from E: 
to 

>F: but still not seen as an icon.  When I go through the Hardware Manager properies 

>and pull the drive up it is showing about 1/4th of teh drive used which I calculate 

>it should based on the backups so it seems to be working that way.  On my other 
XP 

>laptop when I plugged it in it showed up as expected to it seems to be an OS issue. 

> Any ideas?
 

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