USB Storage Device Problem - Help!

Sometimes you must go into Disk Management and assign a unique drive letter
to the USB disk. I've found that XP will occasionally assign a drive letter
that's already in use by another device.

"Mr Wiffy" wrote in message

 > My daughter has a PQI (I think!) USB "Intelligent Stick" 64 mb Memory
 > device - basically an external pen memory - for school use. I cannot get
 > Windows XP to recognise this, despite downloading the driver from the PQI
 > site, and asking Windows to scan for it. In theory it should simply
 > recognise it as an external storage device in My Computer, but it does
 > not.
 >
 > Any suggestions??
 >
 > Thanks in advance.
 >
 > Ian
 >
 >
 >
 >
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"Mr Wiffy" wrote in message

 > My daughter has a PQI (I think!) USB "Intelligent Stick" 64 mb Memory
 > device - basically an external pen memory - for school use. I cannot get
 > Windows XP to recognise this, despite downloading the driver from the PQI
 > site, and asking Windows to scan for it. In theory it should simply
 > recognise it as an external storage device in My Computer, but it does
 > not.
 >
 > Any suggestions??
 >
 > Thanks in advance.
 >
 > Ian
 >

I've found that some computers just won't recognize some brands of those
drives. If you're not getting the USB "boop-boop" sound when you plug it in,
and if the computer doesn't start giving some indication that it's seeing a
device being installed, then you might not be able to get it to work. You
shouldn't need any additional software.

You might try a different USB port, just to see if it makes any difference.

If it's not listed in Drive Management and you can't assign a drive letter,
you might want to save yourself the headache and just buy another brand.
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