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USB drive not recognised
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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USB drive not recognised
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. -- 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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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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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. -- 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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