Peripheral Drives Invisible

Drive letters D, E, F, G, are working but not visible. (camera related)
H, I, J and K are USB 2.0 and are working but invisible as well.
Each shows up on MY COMPUTER when a device is plugged in.

On MY COMPUTER C and D are visible and C is working fine. D questionable---it would not format a blank CD, although it will recognise program (boot) cd's.

I recollect that this happened once before and that there is a way to get the icons to appear again.

I suspect that I may have caused this with a Disk Cleaner program.

There are no Restore points prior to this. They were wiped out.

I have Windows Virtual XP 32bit as well. I am able to access the Virtual partition and send e-mail but other than "C" and "D" drives, the other 8 drives are missing and do NOT recognise plugged in devices.

Of course if Windows7 is fixed maybe they might work again.

Brian.

Windows 7 has a setting that hides drives that contain no media, (nothing inserted).
See this tutorial

Drives - Hide or Show Empty Drives in Computer Folder

Your tip solved part of my problem, thank you.
Clearly I had checked ( or unchecked) the item in error.
So E, F. G and H are now visible. USB drives only show when media inserted.
My problems with Virtual XP mode could not be fixed.
I deleted and re-installed this program.
Everything good now.
Brian.

You're welcome.

I'm glad it worked out.