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Can't assign drive letter for external hard drive in Vista

Asked by introublehan in Computer Hard Drives, Windows Vista, Removable Backup Media

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I recently got a new ASUS laptop with Vista, and I was trying to move files from my old computer's two external hard drives I had. One is FAT 32 and the other is NTFS. Both of them didn't show up in the Vista's Computer so I went looking around. So far,

1. Device driver recognizes them both as disk drives and USB storage devices
2. Disk management shows them at correct volumes
3. Tried uninstalling on the device manager, disconnecting, and reconnecting (upon which vista reinstalled it automatically)
4. Turning off some of the security crap
5. Double checking on old computer to see if there was some hardware issues with the device
6. Changing USB ports (tried all three)

But I can't assign a letter for the drive for some reason. I try, and it will show (H:) or (I:) or something next to the hard drive for a second, and an autoplay icon will briefly flash on the task bar, but then it would close and the letter would dissapear.

PS. I just remembered the first time I plugged it in, the autoplay window popped up completely and I had options, from which I chose 'explore'. I was browsing so I didnt pay attention until I actually got around to it, when I realized it hadn't actually opened up explore. That was the only time it happened.Start Free Trial
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Zones: Computer Hard Drives, Windows Vista, Removable Backup Media
Tags: ASUS Laptop, External Hard Drive
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Solution Provided By: introublehan
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