Can`t find my drives

Hi everyone. I recently decided to cleanup a bit around my pc. I had so many drives in there that I figured I would delete a few. I have C,D,BurnerDrive and PlayDrive or DVD drive. I deleted all the others as there were about 6 other ones showing. Go figure hey. Hell is paved with good intentions they say.

Anyway, I wanted to move some pictures from my digital camera to a folder on my desktop which I had done many times before and it doesn`t read that the drive is ready or anything when I plug in the camera to my usual usb port in front of the computer.

Help me get my drives back please?????? I tried to reinstall XP keeping my settings but I had to show a new administrator name cause it would have erased all my good stuff on my old name. So I deleted the new name cause it just looked like a clean install there. But it did show all the drives though. Now I am back to my regular administrator name and still no drives. There must be a way inside the computer to show the drives back again.

:cry:cry:cry Pleaaaaaaaaaase help......and it that`s not the cause why I can`t get my camera to show a drive, help there too please.

PS. When I open my external hard drive, it shows a new drive and letter. Why won`t it do it with the camera? Thanks

Melle

 

With the device plugged in...

Goto control panel> admin tools> computer management and select disk management.
Check there for a drive that does not have a letter, then click on the drive and assign a letter.

Might be there if Windows is detecting it correctly...

 

Thanks my friend. For some reason I used this little program I found in the forum to show dvd and burning drives (which were already there but I thought the program was to show ALL drives), anyway, I had to reboot for something else and now all my drives are showing again. Go figure. Thanks

Melle

 

I'd figured when you reinstalled xp and would of rebooted they should of shown up. It happens when you do a right click and eject on MM readers they disappear until next reboot. Since you said they still went showing up I went to the next step.. Anyways, enjoy.

 

Thank you

Melle