SOLVED USB Drives

[Jim Godfrey]

Hi

First time on here so hi everybody, small problem with W7 and USB drives, up to the last couple of days everything has been fine but now when I attach a USB hard drive of any description the drive does not appear in windows explorer but it is shown the safe to remove hardware icon in the system tray, any ideas?
I have tried the drives in a couple of USB ports with no difference, also they are fine on other PCs

cheers

Jim

 

[clifford_cooley]

Hi Jim Godfrey - Welcome to w7forums

Have you checked "Disk Management" to see if Windows is still assigning drive letters for the devices?

navigation:

• Control Panel >> All Control Panel Items >> Administrative Tools
• Computer Management
• Disk Management

 

[Jim Godfrey]

Hi Clifford,

Many thanks for the reply, I opened up disk management and plugged in the drive, although the drive is seen there is no drive letter allocated, any ideas how to correct that?

rgds

Jim

 

[clifford_cooley]

If you right click on the volume that needs a letter assignment you will see available options.

Select "Change Drive Letter and Path" to assign or change a drive letter.

 

[Jim Godfrey]

Hi Clifford

Managed to sort that out, many thanks for your help, much appreciated

rgds

Jim