pen drive issue
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My friend recently formatted his pc (only C drive) and re-installed XP. Now he faces a weird problem. The usb ports are working fine but it's not reading any pen drives other than his own. At first I found it hard to beleive but that's what is happening. His pen drive works fine but none of the others do. Any help?
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My friend recently formatted his pc (only C drive) and re-installed XP. Now he faces a weird problem. The usb ports are working fine but it's not reading any pen drives other than his own. At first I found it hard to beleive but that's what is happening. His pen drive works fine but none of the others do. Any help?
Open the device manager, go to Disk Management and lok for the drives (see also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000[^]). They might just lack a drive letter. Otherwise, look in device manager for "unknown devices".
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My friend recently formatted his pc (only C drive) and re-installed XP. Now he faces a weird problem. The usb ports are working fine but it's not reading any pen drives other than his own. At first I found it hard to beleive but that's what is happening. His pen drive works fine but none of the others do. Any help?
Only XP Service Pack 2 has built-in support for USB drives. Tell your friend to install Service Pack 2, and the drives will work. :)
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