flash drive not recognized in win xp home with sp/2

hi
I have a 6GB memorex travel drive and it has always worked good .Today i
plugged it into my pc and nothing ..I used it yeaterday in the same pc and
it worked fine .I shut my pc off every night and install all my updates
during the day.
It shows up in the device manager as a USB storage item and a right click
says its working ok ..but it doesn't show up in my computer .. any help
would be appreciated.

Joe M

On Mar 26, 10:31*am, "JM" <artmo...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> hi
> I have a 6GB memorex travel drive and it has always worked good .Today i
> plugged it into my pc and nothing ..I used it yeaterday in the same pc and
> it worked fine .I shut my pc off every night and install all my updates
> during the day.
> It shows up in the device manager as a USB storage item and a right click
> says its working ok ..but it doesn't show up in my computer .. any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> * * * * * Joe M

Check in Disk Management and try to "assign" a drive letter

Can you try this drive on a different PC?

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:58 -0300, "JM" <artmoore@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

>hi
>I have a 6GB memorex travel drive and it has always worked good .Today i
>plugged it into my pc and nothing ..I used it yeaterday in the same pc and
>it worked fine .I shut my pc off every night and install all my updates
>during the day.
>It shows up in the device manager as a USB storage item and a right click
>says its working ok ..but it doesn't show up in my computer .. any help
>would be appreciated.
>
> Joe M
One way - system restore to yesterday .

On Mar 26, 5:10*pm, bojimbo26...@aol.com wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:58 -0300, "JM" <artmo...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> >hi
> >I have a 6GB memorex travel drive and it has always worked good .Today i
> >plugged it into my pc and nothing ..I used it yeaterday in the same pc and
> >it worked fine .I shut my pc off every night and install all my updates
> >during the day.
> >It shows up in the device manager as a USB storage item and a right click
> >says its working ok ..but it doesn't show up in my computer .. any help
> >would be appreciated.
>
> > * * * * *Joe M
>
> One way - system restore to yesterday .

System Restore would be "over-kill" for this problem and can cause
more problems.