Comments on: When your USB thumb drive doesn’t show up in XP

By: Azmin

Azmin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:26:19 +0000

Paul…

I had been searching for so long for a solution!
I even changed my mobo and CPU thinking it’s the mobo that’s causing the problem.
I was about to change my Power supply unit.
I had originally partitioned my HDD and used C for my systems.
But it got corrupted so I used the other partitioned which was labelled F Drive.

I’ve just reformat and reinstalled XP to C drive again and my usb finally works!
thanks a lot!

By: mpho

mpho — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:54:16 +0000

my usb do not allow me to copy and to delete on it, it say “disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk.”

so please help me on this problem.

By: TNP

TNP — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:16:21 +0000

My laptop is not reading my external hard drive. I connected it via the USB port, and my laptop recognized it initially. Then an error message showed up as I was transferring files, and after I clicked on Cancel, the external hasn’t been recognized since. It’s not working regardless of which USB port I connect it to. I tried downloading the hotfix from Microsoft, but apparently there’s already a more current version of the service pack on my Compaq. When I tried “Start->Run and type ‘diskmgmt.msc’”, only my C drive and CD drive showed up. I was unable to change the letter of my USB drive because it wasn’t even detected while my external hard drive was plugged in. Does anyone have any other suggestions on what I can do to fix this problem? Thanks in advance =)

By: goldfishcrackers

goldfishcrackers — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:17:41 +0000

the problem with my usb drive is that it works on my xp computers, but not my vista one. i dont think its even recongized.
Help?

By: ordinary

ordinary — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:03:34 +0000

Paul Said,
June 2, 2008 @ 2:25 am

There’s a bug in XP that if the F: drive is already in use when you plug
your USB stick in, then it will not take the next available drive letter. If
you can disconnect the existing F: mapping then the USB stick will then
magically appear mapped to F:

It’s really works. But now, my H: drive never appear in ‘My Computer’. I first thought that was USB problems. But since my local drive also didn’t
appear as it has been mapped with the H: drive.

By: Fuzz

Fuzz — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:39:01 +0000

Hey,

I plugged in my thumb drive and when I tried to open a file, got this message: drive not formatted. it won’t let me open anything on the drive, and insists on formatting and thus erasing everyhing on it. prior to plugging it into my xp i was using it on a mac computer to transger some files.

HELP! (all my uni work…)

By: j noble

j noble — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:36:04 +0000

When I plug a usb memorex thumbdrive into a computer running
xp with service pack 2 it crashes immediately and goes into a continous reboot cycle. Have two different thumb drives fromm memorex but
have not tried another brand. have scanned both thumbdrive for
viruses and none found. Any comments? Thanks

By: deepak

deepak — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:00:29 +0000

hahah i really had this problem and i thought might be a USB problem and spend money on repairing it..so stupid.and i tried again on another USB which had same problem and it worked.whoa thanks ,so easy and i didn’t know..

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:04:18 +0000

It works on the Vista, thank you!

By: Evo

Evo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:54:49 +0000

That’s why you should use a Mac. You plug in the USB thumb drive and it uses the name of the thumb drive or it’s labeled as USB Drive.

I swear it’s like Magic or something. I guess Mac just work better

Evo/