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to: Alan Zisman
from: Alan Ianson
date: 2006-05-02 18:12:58
subject: Flash drive no longer recognized

Re: Flash drive no longer recognized
  By: Alan Zisman to All on Tue May 02 2006 09:08 pm

 > On the relatively new Win XP system at my work, USB flash drives are no
 > longer recognized... when inserted, the drive(s) light up, the system
 > beeps, but the drive never appears in My Computer.
 > 
 > The same drives (I've tried a couple) used to work without problem in
 > this system, and continue to work with other computers.
 > 
 > Suggestions?

That just happened to me this morning. In my case I had two disconnected
network drives listed, I right clicked and disconnected them and then
they didn't show the list of drives anymore. After that inserting the
flash drive worked as expected. Could that be what's happening?

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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