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No Drive Letter Assigned to USB or IEEE 1394 Storage Device

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Article ID:266014
Last Review:January 27, 2007
Revision:2.1
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SYMPTOMS

You restart Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me), and then attach to your computer a Universal Serial Bus (USB) or an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) 1394 external storage device. The device does not appear in the My Computer window or in Windows Explorer, and is not accessible.

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CAUSE

This behavior may occur when all drive letters are already assigned to other devices, making no additional drive letters available.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this behavior, disconnect mapped network drives or other storage devices, freeing up a drive letter to assign to the additional storage device.

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APPLIES TO
•Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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