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3 Weeks Ago
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| | Flash Drive recognition Hi Guys, Just upgraded from vista to windows 7, and have a problem, in that when I plug a USB Flash drive in, I cannot see it, it is recognized in the 'Safely remove hardware' box, but in the device manager it calls it an unknown device, under storage volumes. Could use some advice please how do I rectify the problem Your help is appreciated Thanks and Regards Bob |
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3 Weeks Ago
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| | Re: Flash Drive recognition Assuming the flash is known to work, post to a Win7 group Visit: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...US/categories/ Windows 7 - The Next Generation of Customer Support: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f...rviceWin7.mspx "B H" <NOSPAMfurness50@newsgroup> wrote in message news:4B21301D-2BD9-4E1C-894D-3465B5E2BBC1@newsgroup Quote: > Hi Guys, > Just upgraded from vista to windows 7, and have a problem, in that when I > plug a USB Flash drive in, I cannot see it, it is recognized in the > 'Safely remove hardware' box, but in the device manager it calls it an > unknown device, under storage volumes. Could use some advice please how > do I rectify the problem > Your help is appreciated > Thanks and Regards > Bob |
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3 Weeks Ago
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| | Re: Flash Drive recognition Hi, Bob. What does Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) say about that flash drive? RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@newsgroup Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "B H" <NOSPAMfurness50@newsgroup> wrote in message news:4B21301D-2BD9-4E1C-894D-3465B5E2BBC1@newsgroup Quote: > Hi Guys, > Just upgraded from vista to windows 7, and have a problem, in that when I > plug a USB Flash drive in, I cannot see it, it is recognized in the > 'Safely remove hardware' box, but in the device manager it calls it an > unknown device, under storage volumes. Could use some advice please how > do I rectify the problem > Your help is appreciated > Thanks and Regards > Bob |
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