Vista - USB Drives Not Seen in My Computer

I have two USB Drives installed with Vista Ultimate OS. One drive is a CD RW;
the other a DVD RW.

Both drives show up in Device Manager as working. The USB Mass Storage
Device driver is also working.

But neither drive appears in the Computer window (Formerly My Computer).

Does anyone know what I can do to cause both to appear in the Computer
window? I can't put anything on them unless I can see them.

Thanks.
--
Featheriver

Turn off anf back on your USB hard drive, Windows should find it and install
all the drivers needed for it..



"Featheriver" <featheriver@direcway.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:5EB38FE3-4DA8-489A-A784-B0450ED6FE4D@microsoft.com...
>I have two USB Drives installed with Vista Ultimate OS. One drive is a CD
>RW;
> the other a DVD RW.
>
> Both drives show up in Device Manager as working. The USB Mass Storage
> Device driver is also working.
>
> But neither drive appears in the Computer window (Formerly My Computer).
>
> Does anyone know what I can do to cause both to appear in the Computer
> window? I can't put anything on them unless I can see them.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Featheriver

I have uninstalled the drivers for both drives and the USB Mass Storage. I
then restarted the computer. Windows found all three drivers and installed
each one without difficult. It even announced they were ready for use.

I then opened Windows Explorer and looked into the Computer window. Hard
drives C and D were there. My internal DVD drive was there. My internal CD RW
drive was there. But neither of the USB drives were there.

Thanks for the idea however.

Have any additional suggestion?
--
Featheriver


"Gene" wrote:

> Turn off anf back on your USB hard drive, Windows should find it and install
> all the drivers needed for it..
>
>
>
> "Featheriver" <featheriver@direcway.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
> news:5EB38FE3-4DA8-489A-A784-B0450ED6FE4D@microsoft.com...
> >I have two USB Drives installed with Vista Ultimate OS. One drive is a CD
> >RW;
> > the other a DVD RW.
> >
> > Both drives show up in Device Manager as working. The USB Mass Storage
> > Device driver is also working.
> >
> > But neither drive appears in the Computer window (Formerly My Computer).
> >
> > Does anyone know what I can do to cause both to appear in the Computer
> > window? I can't put anything on them unless I can see them.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > --
> > Featheriver
>

Have you tried using Computer Management to assign them
a drive letter?

Type Computer Management into Start Menu's search bar, click it.
Then, look under Storage>Disk Management


-Michael

"Featheriver" <featheriver@direcway.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:5EB38FE3-4DA8-489A-A784-B0450ED6FE4D@microsoft.com...
>I have two USB Drives installed with Vista Ultimate OS. One drive is a CD RW;
> the other a DVD RW.
>
> Both drives show up in Device Manager as working. The USB Mass Storage
> Device driver is also working.
>
> But neither drive appears in the Computer window (Formerly My Computer).
>
> Does anyone know what I can do to cause both to appear in the Computer
> window? I can't put anything on them unless I can see them.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Featheriver

Yes Michael. The CD RW drive is H; the DVD RW drive is G. Disk Management
informs me both are "healthy primary partitions." Each has a file system of
UDF.

I even have a disk in drive G and Disk Management shows the disk is labeled
"Downloaded SW."

So, it appears to me both drives work just fine. However, I can't access
them to burn anything on them until they show up in the Computer window.

Thanks for the suggestion. I hope you have another.
--
Featheriver


"MICHAEL" wrote:

> Have you tried using Computer Management to assign them
> a drive letter?
>
> Type Computer Management into Start Menu's search bar, click it.
> Then, look under Storage>Disk Management
>
>
> -Michael
>
> "Featheriver" <featheriver@direcway.com(donotspam)> wrote in message
> news:5EB38FE3-4DA8-489A-A784-B0450ED6FE4D@microsoft.com...
> >I have two USB Drives installed with Vista Ultimate OS. One drive is a CD RW;
> > the other a DVD RW.
> >
> > Both drives show up in Device Manager as working. The USB Mass Storage
> > Device driver is also working.
> >
> > But neither drive appears in the Computer window (Formerly My Computer).
> >
> > Does anyone know what I can do to cause both to appear in the Computer
> > window? I can't put anything on them unless I can see them.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > --
> > Featheriver
>
>