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

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Here's 1 screenie of the F: drive showing itself while I'm already in the F: folder.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l268/mmilitia9/1.jpg

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Here's the F: acting invisible 2 different ways.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l268/mmilitia9/error.jpg

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If your USB devices don't appear in your list of drives, you can probably correct this as follows:

Open regedit. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Export the key for backup. Delete any value named "UpperFilters" or "LowerFilters" (Only exact match!).

Reboot.

Check other ControlSets if this doesn't fix it.

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It wont navigate to that. I can only get as far as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\. Which leaves me to play around with Services and (default) I'm using XP home if that helps any.. Nick


On Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 9:56 am, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>If your USB devices don't appear in your list of drives, you can probably correct
>this as follows:
>

Open regedit. Navigate to
>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
>

Export the key for backup. Delete any value named "UpperFilters" or "LowerFilters"
>(Only exact match!).

Reboot.
>

Check other ControlSets if this doesn't fix it.

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