Comments on: Find Your Missing USB Drive on Windows XP

By: spyke

spyke — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:41:49 +0000

i cannot see my pendrive under explorer.
when i insert a new pen drve a wizard for installing drvers appears and after the wizard all it says is drivers not found.

no my usb port is alright since my windows mobile gets detected and work fine .

i cannot access the drive from commandline also also when i insert my pd , a sound is heard but no sign of drive , even disk management also doesn’t show that a drive is attached. but under other device section of device manager i can find the name with a yellow “?” on its name.
pls help me out .

if the problem is with drivers suggest a way to find the drivers.

waiting for reply………………………………………………………………….

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:28:06 +0000

My “missing” USB drive is the one in the top corner which is not given a letter, and when I right click on it all the options are greyed out. How can I get windows to recognise it?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:47:09 +0000

I have a similar problem execept for one exception. The drive I have is also an old c drive off a computer I retired. My problem is when i go into disk manager there is no drive letter assigned to this particualar drive, so when I try to change it the only option I get is to delete. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

By: Yohan Perera

Yohan Perera — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:26:31 +0000

For worse situations you can follow this advice from Microsoft. Involves a registry hack..

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:06:27 +0000

I have two transcend USB 4GB thumb drives. One works fine and the other stopped working. The drive that is not working contains one year of work.

VERY IMPORTANT STUFF.

Anyway, when i plug it into any of my three computers, i am receiving the following error message, “One of the USB devices attached to this computer malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it.”

I have tried numerous USB ports. Same issue. When i go to Devmgmt, it list Unknown device. When i check the Details of the Hardware Instance ID in device manager, it does not list the VID, instead it show 0000&000_etc. The hardware ID should be 058F

I am running Windowx XP SP2.

I have not made any changes to the PC recently.. All other USB devices works just fine. I may have to cut my losses and move on, but the information on this drive will takes MONTHS to restore!!!

HELP pleaseeeeeeeee…

By: Zelig Lui

Zelig Lui — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:45:30 +0000

My USB memory stick which I use daily just didn’t work all of a sudden as there is no detection after plugging into the USB slot. I tried on several PC already and still no detection. I have extremely important data on the USB thumb drive……anyone can help?

By: Bilge

Bilge — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:34:11 +0000

Me and 252 others thank Paul Gu|blog for this answer!

Full article at http://blog.paulgu.com/2008/01.....partition/

It works!

Note: It installed System Information folder of approx 130Mb, I later connected the drive to a Windows Vista PC, and deleted this folder to return the 130Mb for storage.

“How to delete GPT Protective Partition

In Windows XP Professional, if you cannot access or modify GPT disk, you can convert a GPT disk to MBR by using the clean command in DiskPart, which will remove all data and partition structures from the disk.

1. You may see S2VR HD 5 Drives in GPT status.

2. Go to DOS command line (click on “Start Menu”, then “Run”, type in “cmd” in textbox, and hit “OK”)

* Type in “DiskPart” in command line.
* Type in “list disk” in command line to show all disks in this machine.
* Use “select” to set the focus to the specified partition, for example “select disk 1″.
* Use “clean” command to remove GPT disk from the current in-focus disk by zeroing sectors.

3. Go back to Disk Management, you can see all S2VR HD disks are “unallocated” now. Right click on disk info, choose “Initialize Disk”.

4. Choose all drives in S2VR HD and initialize them.

Warning: This command will erase all data on the disk, so please backup your data first.

Filed by Paul Gu at January 6th, 2008 under Windows”

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:53:24 +0000

Tony
What I have found with windows microsoft, even with registry cleaners and so on, you can spend a lot of money and hours, when repair and re-installs do not work, It best to do a fresh install, About once a year, so I learned for affordable reasons, Unless you have a D drive but best to have OS disc to reformat and re install, I have XP home edition, hard drive, [I Do Not have disc,]which has stopped recognising Lacie 120 GB pocket drive, it shows up in Bios menu, but not in Disc management, or device manager, Sound is heard when connected, Safely Remove Hardware does not Show. But it shows up in Vista home premium hard drive,[I have Disc] and in XP Professional [I have Disc.]spare installed hard drive, The downside is that I cannot replace installed software, in XP home edition, which I use frequently, even the lacie booster did not help. I have tried re installing usb drivers, as of yet no success, I even reformatted Lacie, as was to NTFS.
Tony

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:28:14 +0000

I was unable to get my portable USB-powered harddrive to mount. It didn’t show up in Disk Management or anywhere although I could feel that the drive was spinning. I finally figured out that I needed to plug-in it into an additional 2nd USB port so that I guess it received enough power. The cable that came with the drive had 2 USB plugs in it. Once I plugged in the 2nd one it immediately mounted. What’s particularly interesting is that the first time I mounted this drive on the same computer with the same other USB devices connected it only required one USB port…

This is Windows Vista SP1 and a Transcend 25M drive.

By: Arunava Ghosh

Arunava Ghosh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:26:43 +0000

I’ve a external hard disk ..Of late the prob arised that my PC detects the external drive but it doesnt show up in My Computer ..It shows in Device Manager ..I even tried out ur tip but of no use coz it even doesnt shown up in disk management….whenevr I plug in the drive it gives a alarm saying the drive is detected but I cant see the drive no where ..Please help