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Old June 20th 06, 11:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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While fine on a WXP machine, my WD USB drive is not recognised by
Windows ME. The blue light (USB power) shines, the gree arrow in the
system tray comes up (Disconnect Hardware icon) come up, and in the
Device Manager the USB Drive is fine as well. But in Explorer, no USB
drive comes up. What do I do wrong?

WME

Wim

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Old June 20th 06, 11:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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What do I do wrong?

Probably nothing.

What filing system is in use on the drive? The system is clearly seeing
the drive so my first suspicion would be that you have the drive formatted
to use the NTFS filing system which is not recognised by any Win9x system
and therefore whilst such drives are physically recognised by the Device
Manager, they are invisible to Windows Explorer.
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Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Window



Wim wrote:

While fine on a WXP machine, my WD USB drive is not recognised by
Windows ME. The blue light (USB power) shines, the gree arrow in the
system tray comes up (Disconnect Hardware icon) come up, and in the
Device Manager the USB Drive is fine as well. But in Explorer, no USB
drive comes up. What do I do wrong?


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Old June 20th 06, 07:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Default USB drive not recognised

Thanks a lot. Can't check it now, but seems right. What are the pros
and cons of that NFTS format compared to other formats, esp. in WXP
environment?
Wim

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Old June 20th 06, 08:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Default USB drive not recognised

Whilst not wishing to enter into any discussion on the merits of any one
filing system if you want to use an external drive on different systems
such as Win 9x, NT systems such as W2K and XP, or Linux you would be
better served using a filing system accessible from all which would be
FAT32.
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Mike Maltby MVP



Wim wrote:

Thanks a lot. Can't check it now, but seems right. What are the pros
and cons of that NFTS format compared to other formats, esp. in WXP
environment?


 




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