USB Drives not showing up after Repair Install

[SimFreaker3243]

Running XP Home SP2. Since I did a repair install, my USB drives arent
showing up in My Computer. I can see them in Disk Management and assign them
a drive letter which they arent automatically given either and view them from
there. Formatting isn't an option for me. I have already uninstalled them
from Device Manager as well.
Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Rock]

"SimFreaker3243" <SimFreaker3243@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> Running XP Home SP2. Since I did a repair install, my USB drives arent
> showing up in My Computer. I can see them in Disk Management and assign
> them
> a drive letter which they arent automatically given either and view them
> from
> there. Formatting isn't an option for me. I have already uninstalled them
> from Device Manager as well.
> Thanks for any help you can give.

Troubleshooting for USB Drives
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310575

Good luck.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

 

[SimFreaker3243]

Well I fixed it sort of by re-installing chipset drivers but now I have to
assign it a drive letter in disk management and My Computer shows it as a HD
instead of Removable Storage. Help with that please would be appreciated.

 

[mikeyhsd]

check with microsoft knowledge base and/or google



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"SimFreaker3243" <SimFreaker3243@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:107D4E7C-2476-48D2-B82B-000C67B2AF18@microsoft.com...
Well I fixed it sort of by re-installing chipset drivers but now I have to
assign it a drive letter in disk management and My Computer shows it as a HD
instead of Removable Storage. Help with that please would be appreciated.