OK, there is no exclamation point in the device manager so I know its not that. As stated, I'm thinking the letter the computer wants to assign it is already in use too. There are several network drives as well. Currently, this is what is in My Computer:
- C: Drive = main hard drive with XP
- D: Drive = DVD drive
- E: = My Archos USB Jukebox player/UBS hard drive (under 'devices with removable storage')
- F: G: = my Sansa mp3 player (under 'devices with removable storage')
- company designated/assigned network drives H: L: O: Q: R: S: T:
Now, after I plug those all in and then this problem hard drive, no letter is ever assigned to it. If it is one of the comapny network drive letters that is conflicting with it, I don't want to disconnect them cause I don't really know how to get them back & they are needed.
I thought about maybe trying to change some of the network drive letters to possibly help the situation, but again, I don't have admin rights so I can't do that either.
I'm thinking the problem/conflict may be the H: drive since that is essentially the next in order, but no luck. And again, even if I don't have any of the 'removable storage' devices plugged in (E, F, G), it still won't assign it one of those letters either.