On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > I haven't used W*nd*ws for years, but I'm obliged to set up a machine for a > friend who steadfastly refuses to use anything else.
Personally I'd recommend "tough love" and tell her that you don't know enough about Windows to support her properly, she can either do it herself (with the help of google), pay for professional windows support or switch to something you are more familiar with... > The disc seems to automount, the drive is reported as being present and I > can unmount it successfully. But, where the hell are the files? The last > time I used w*nd*ws, an added disc drive would simply be allocated the next > drive letter in the sequence and would be accessible through that. That's > not happening, and I've tried three different drives so far, all of which > work perfectly well on my Debian machines. I've found that sometimes windows will allocate USB disks to the same drive letter as an already existing network drive, it doesn't sound to me like you are likely to have any network drives configured but there may still be a clash between two drives trying to use the same drive letter. You can check this by right clicking "My Computer" and selecting "manage" then in the computer management window selecting Disk Management under Storage. There you should be able to see all the drives that are mounted and the drive letters associated with them. If you have a clash you can change the drive letter of a device my selecting it in the top right hand pane of the computer management window and right clicking then selecting "Change Drive Letter and Paths". Obvious huh? and people say the command line is hard to use :) Good luck! Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
