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O.P. RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick
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Posted by Supersonicdarky - Today at 03:46 PM
do you have the driver fot it? google "<name of device> driver(s)"

I'll try that if nothing else works

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Posted by Adeptus - Today at 03:46 PM
Put the stick in.  Allow enough time for Windows to recognize it, then go to Start, Run, and type "diskmgmt.msc" in the box.  Find your memory stick in the list of volumes and change its drive letter to an unused one.

There is a known bug / feature in Windows, which permits plugged in removable mass storage devices to receive duplicate drive letters, already in use by things higher up in the driver hierarchy (such as optical drives and mapped network shares). This leaves the removable device "masked" by the existing assignment and not accessible until the drive letter is changed.

You could have some other issue, but it really sounds like this.

OK when I run the command, there is only one volume that comes up and that is the C:.  It makes a noise when I put the memory stick in though so it knows it's there.

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Posted by YottabyteWIzard - Today at 03:47 PM
I had this problem when a memory card god fked up, the only thing i did was reformat the card with the camera and I was able to use it again.

Try scandisk in it.


I really don't want to format it yet as I would lose the pictures..and everyone knows pictures are irreplaceable :p


Thanks for the help guys, any more feedback would be great.
05-22-2006 04:10 PM
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Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by kierant on 05-22-2006 at 03:12 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by Supersonicdarky on 05-22-2006 at 03:46 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by Adeptus on 05-22-2006 at 03:46 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by YottabyteWizard on 05-22-2006 at 03:47 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by kierant on 05-22-2006 at 04:10 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by RaceProUK on 05-22-2006 at 08:54 PM
RE: RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by kierant on 05-22-2006 at 09:39 PM
RE: RE: RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by CookieRevised on 05-22-2006 at 10:53 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by Voldemort on 05-22-2006 at 09:42 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by aNILEator on 05-22-2006 at 09:58 PM
RE: Computer won't recognise my memory stick - by RaceProUK on 05-22-2006 at 10:53 PM


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