I had the same problem, infact I got blue dump screen thing, so I dont
uninstall from safely remove icon anymore. If your drive letters
disappears then its likley your drive wont be seen in windows either as the
driver is missing. So go to device manager disable the device (usb hard
drive) then unplug it. Close down vista then restart it plug in your usb
device (hard drive) then vista will recognise it as new hardware looking for
the driver. Vista sometimes I find has difficulty looking for the driver,
doing this way will relocatre the driver and you should have your drive
letter back. As for stopping the drive via the safely remove icon I don
bother now, I just shut down pc, vista then sees my drive when I switch pc
back on.
uninstall from safely remove icon anymore. If your drive letters
disappears then its likley your drive wont be seen in windows either as the
driver is missing. So go to device manager disable the device (usb hard
drive) then unplug it. Close down vista then restart it plug in your usb
device (hard drive) then vista will recognise it as new hardware looking for
the driver. Vista sometimes I find has difficulty looking for the driver,
doing this way will relocatre the driver and you should have your drive
letter back. As for stopping the drive via the safely remove icon I don
bother now, I just shut down pc, vista then sees my drive when I switch pc
back on.
"KeeKee" <> wrote in message
news:fb9858e4-c508-447f-8adf-…
>I have Windows XP and Vista.
>
> I always go through "safely remove hardware" before pulling off USB
> drive on XP. However, I have been trying to
> do the same on Vista, it seems that I cannot do the same as XP. For
> instance, I plug in my USB on Vista and it appears as H drive on
> Vista, when I am ready to do "safely remove hardware", I don’t see the
> device drive H is on the "Safely remove hardware" window, so I cannot
> stop the H drive. I am concerned about the Vista hardware.
> Could anyone shed a light?
> Thanks in advance.
