Card Reader Drive Letters Missing

I have a Sandisk 4 slot USB card reader on which I was only using the CF
slot. I removed the other 3 drive letters to clean up My Computer, but now

find I need to use another of the slots for an SD card and don't know how to reacquire the other drive letters.

I've tried removing the hardware from Device Manager and reinstalling the
reader, and also tried to add the drive letters through Disk Management
without success.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

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Rich B

The OS should detect the new activity and asssign a drive letter automatically. (winxp)

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border lord said:

The OS should detect the new activity and asssign a drive letter
automatically. (winxp)

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Thanks for the try. Yeah, sorry, I should have specified XP SP2.

That's also what I thought, but it doesn't detect the card and I tried 2 different SD's. The light on the card reader does go on, so I assume the reader is functioning ok.

Any other thoughts?
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Rich B

Maybe some help.

http://www.pcformat.co.uk/tips/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=32437&subsectionid=689

You probably have a virtual drive, taking up a drive letter and the card is hiding behind that drive.

Try the following:

Go [Start ~ Control Panel ~ Administrative Tools ~ Computer Management] and in the left menu, select [Disk Management] If the computer recognized the card, on the lower right hand side it should be listed. Right-click on the description and select [Change Drive Letter and Paths]. In the pop up, select a free drive letter.

Regards

Ger

Did you perhaps hide the drive letters in a utility like TweakUI from Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP? If so, go into the utility, and unhide the drive letters.

Here's a link to the PowerToys on Microsoft's web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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• Eric, http://www.InvisibleRobot.com/

I solved the problem by uninstalling all USB devices from my system through Device Manager, and then reinstalling one by one. When the Card Reader came back, it was with all four slots as drives, as it was originally.
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Rich B