USB Flash Drive letter assign problem-SOLVED
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:26 pm
Have been using Terabyte for couple years, always doing updates regularly on several machines, and have had nary an issue. Do only 'Full image' backups, and use TBIMount regularly too.
Recently, installed IFL/IFD/IFW 2.65 on a IBM R51 Win XP SP2 box, in order to do tbimounts and 'explore' another box's full image backup. Had not installed IFL/IFD/IFW yet, but had made a backup of this box using a 2.65 IFL boot CD. Drive letter assignment of USB flash drives was working immediately before the install, since I copied the Terabyte install setup from an inserted USB flash drive.
Immediately after installation, noticed inserting a flash drive USB stick would not be seen in Explorer, but was seen in DM, w/o a letter. Also seen in DOS (Start, Run CMD), as well as in IFD. In Disk Manager, can assign a drive letter, and right click 'open' to see the flash drives contents, but must open separate explorer window to see other drives, not in that window. Also, if instead of 'open' in DM, one right clicks 'explore', the drive appears very briefly, then defaults to explore of the C Drive (all that's on the box) w/o displaying the flash drive. Also, if copy paste from the single explore window from 'open', long filenames are not recognized as legit. Lastly, the manually assigned letter is no longer available, after removing the flash drive and reinserting...the whole process must be done again. TBIMount does not see the drive at all.
Not being sure if Terabyte was involved here, I restored a full image created using an IFL bootdisk just a day before. Immediately, no issue whatever recognizing flash drives, no matter how many times removed and inserted, with drive letters being freed up. I re-installed IFL/IFD/IFW 2.65 again, and, lo and behold, the same problem presented itself. I did the full installation of the product.
Anybody experience this? I may try an older version of Terabyte IFL/IFD/IFW setup.
Recently, installed IFL/IFD/IFW 2.65 on a IBM R51 Win XP SP2 box, in order to do tbimounts and 'explore' another box's full image backup. Had not installed IFL/IFD/IFW yet, but had made a backup of this box using a 2.65 IFL boot CD. Drive letter assignment of USB flash drives was working immediately before the install, since I copied the Terabyte install setup from an inserted USB flash drive.
Immediately after installation, noticed inserting a flash drive USB stick would not be seen in Explorer, but was seen in DM, w/o a letter. Also seen in DOS (Start, Run CMD), as well as in IFD. In Disk Manager, can assign a drive letter, and right click 'open' to see the flash drives contents, but must open separate explorer window to see other drives, not in that window. Also, if instead of 'open' in DM, one right clicks 'explore', the drive appears very briefly, then defaults to explore of the C Drive (all that's on the box) w/o displaying the flash drive. Also, if copy paste from the single explore window from 'open', long filenames are not recognized as legit. Lastly, the manually assigned letter is no longer available, after removing the flash drive and reinserting...the whole process must be done again. TBIMount does not see the drive at all.
Not being sure if Terabyte was involved here, I restored a full image created using an IFL bootdisk just a day before. Immediately, no issue whatever recognizing flash drives, no matter how many times removed and inserted, with drive letters being freed up. I re-installed IFL/IFD/IFW 2.65 again, and, lo and behold, the same problem presented itself. I did the full installation of the product.
Anybody experience this? I may try an older version of Terabyte IFL/IFD/IFW setup.