# IT Crew: Thumb drive not showing up **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 9, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718 "2006-08-09T07:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/1 "2006-08-09T07:06:37Z")
It installs, etc… etc… says ready to use I can see it in the device manager…yet no drive shows up in “My Computer” go… It works on other computers in the office 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/2 "2006-08-09T07:07:31Z")
do u have mapped drives of any kind, you might have to manually set the thumb drive letter. ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/3 "2006-08-09T07:08:35Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > do u have mapped drives of any kind, you might have to manually set the thumb drive letter. yes, I thought this might be the problem I have about 7 mapped network drives… How do I go about manually assigning a drive letter, I couldn’t see any option in the device props… ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/4 "2006-08-09T07:09:11Z")
yeah the thumb drive is trying to take over a mapped drive, just change it manually. ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/5 "2006-08-09T07:12:57Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > yeah the thumb drive is trying to take over a mapped drive, just change it manually. yeah how…If I go into Device Manager, select the drive, and goto volumes everything is empty…If I click populate, it sets it to drive F (a network drive) but then gives me all the details for the network drive…it wont let me change it :gotme: ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/6 "2006-08-09T07:14:14Z")
the easy way is to disconnect F, then the drive will use that letter, but im sure F is something important to your company. ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/7 "2006-08-09T07:15:18Z")
> [@BuickGN](#): > > the easy way is to disconnect F, then the drive will use that letter, but im sure F is something important to your company. yeah F is our main network drive…I’d rather not disconnect it…this is also the reason why I was having problems with the iPod (see ranting thread)… Oh there’s also processes running off the F drive… Fuck it, I re-mapped F to G and disconnected F ---
**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/8 "2006-08-09T07:18:43Z")
> [@JoesTypeS](#): > > yeah F is our main network drive…I’d rather not disconnect it…this is also the reason why I was having problems with the iPod (see ranting thread)… > > Oh there’s also processes running off the F drive… Go into computer management and then disk management. Change the drive letter there. ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/9 "2006-08-09T07:21:43Z")
right click the drive in my computer and change the letter there. I usually call them Z ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/10 "2006-08-09T07:26:46Z")
yay done…changed F to Z, remapped VOL1 to F :tup: :tup: :ham: on me for not doing into Disk Management ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/11 "2006-08-09T07:28:24Z")
now u can get that SHITpod working 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-crew-thumb-drive-not-showing-up/15718/12 "2006-08-09T08:29:37Z")
lol @ shitpod