My computer does not recognize my flash drive
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When I insert my flash/usb drive into the computer I cannot see in My Computer.
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This is caused by a flaw in WindowsXP. Note this is only for XP and does not apply to Windows98. WindowXP ignores mapped drives and assigns F to the flash device which is already assigned to the network. This causes both the flash device and the network to fail. To remedy the situation you need to remap the flash device.
Right click on My Computer
Choose Manage from the menu
Double click on Storage in the right window pane
Double click on Disk Management(Local) in the right window pane
Find the USB device you have installed and right click
Choose Change Drive Letter and Paths from the menu
Click the Change button and pick a drive letter that is not in use (S and R and good choices)
Click OK and exit the Disk Management program
You have have to do this only once per device per port. This means if you plug the same device into 3 different USB ports you will have to remap 3 times. Windows will remember the device settings after you set the drive letter once.
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