Tech Support Me » removable http://www.techsupport.me.uk Your one stop resource for free pc technical support Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:27:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 When your Windows doesn’t see USB Stick or external HDD? http://www.techsupport.me.uk/2009/03/03/when-your-windows-doesnt-see-usb-stick-or-external-hdd/ http://www.techsupport.me.uk/2009/03/03/when-your-windows-doesnt-see-usb-stick-or-external-hdd/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:56:13 +0000 robbrad http://www.techsupport.me.uk/?p=124 If you have inserted a USB Stick or external HDD and its not there in the my computer as a drive then try the following.

  1. Open Control Panel and double click Administrative Tools
  2. Double click Computer Management
  3.  Left click Disk management in the left hand task plane
  4. Use the lower right hand task plane to find the removable device 
  5. Right click the removable disks space and select Change drive letter and Paths…
  6. Click Change and select a letter that is not in use
  7. Select a letter that is not in use
  8. Click Ok and click Yes to the warning (becarefull to only do this to drives that are not in use, dont do it to your windows drive!!)
  9. Now the drive will appear in My Computer

 

Alternativly you could try Acronis Disk Management to takle any other disk related problems

Thanks to Ewa Paszkiewicz for this Article

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