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USB stick - No drive letter allocated
Bought 3 Sandisk 2GB USB sticks for using on a floppy disc emulator. The emulator software effectively divides the USB stick into 100 virtual floppy discs. This I did on the first stick on my Win7 PC, where the USB stick was E drive, then I did something wrong (probably removed without 'ejecting') and all of a sudden the Win7 PC is not seeing the USB stick.
Disk Management within Computer Management sees the stick but when I try to allocate a drive letter I get the message "the operation has failed because Disk management view is not up to date......" refreshing & restarting as instructed does nothing. Trying it in safe mode is no different.
On my XP laptop the stick is seen OK and accepts files. the only difference I can see between the offending USB stick and another identical one is that there is 512 bytes allocated on the stick the Win7 PC sees whereas the offending stick is fully unallocated when reformatted (FAT).
I know its only a cheap USB stick but it must be something simple and I dont want to be defeated by the little so and so.
Any thoughts?