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Flash Drive recognition
Hi Guys,
Just upgraded from vista to windows 7, and have a problem, in that when I plug a USB Flash drive in, I cannot see it, it is recognized in the 'Safely remove hardware' box, but in the device manager it calls it an unknown device, under storage volumes. Could use some advice please how do I rectify the problem Your help is appreciated Thanks and Regards Bob |
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Flash Drive recognition
Assuming the flash is known to work, post to a Win7 group
Visit: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...US/categories/ Windows 7 - The Next Generation of Customer Support: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...rviceWin7.mspx "B H" wrote in message ... Hi Guys, Just upgraded from vista to windows 7, and have a problem, in that when I plug a USB Flash drive in, I cannot see it, it is recognized in the 'Safely remove hardware' box, but in the device manager it calls it an unknown device, under storage volumes. Could use some advice please how do I rectify the problem Your help is appreciated Thanks and Regards Bob |
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Flash Drive recognition
Hi, Bob.
What does Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) say about that flash drive? RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "B H" wrote in message ... Hi Guys, Just upgraded from vista to windows 7, and have a problem, in that when I plug a USB Flash drive in, I cannot see it, it is recognized in the 'Safely remove hardware' box, but in the device manager it calls it an unknown device, under storage volumes. Could use some advice please how do I rectify the problem Your help is appreciated Thanks and Regards Bob |