In Windows XP, if you have mapped shared or network drives to beginning letters (i.e., F, G, H), the operating system may fail to assign a drive letter for the Micro Hard Drive. It is best to map all network drives to later drive letters (i.e., O, M, or N).
To see if the operating system is seeing the drive but attempting to assign it to a drive letter already in use, perform the following steps.
- Click on your Control Panel
- Find the Administrative Tools icon and double click
- Double click on Computer Management
- Double click on Disk Management
- Disk 0 is always the hard drive; so the Micro Hard Drive should appear as Disk 1 or Disk 2 depending on how many hard drives you have, and the assigned drive letter will be visible here*
- If you have to change the drive letter, right click on the appropriate Disk and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths
- Click on the Change button
- Assign a free Drive Letter and click OK
You will get a warning that this may cause some programs to stop running. This could happen if you have scripts directing automated actions to a specific drive letter.
The new drive letter will be assigned and will be seen as the new letter until you reboot the computer or remove the Micro Hard Drive from the port.
*Note: In the Drive Management program any external drives such as a USB Flash drive will been seen in the upper right window, but won’t be seen as a logical drive in the lower right window
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