WindowsMediaPlayer not recognizing my usb flash drive as media device!

no on the other machines I'm running XP,but it shouldn't matter right? since it's basically a wmp issue as like I said windows recognizes them

sorry I didn't see the pop up on the XP. Correction: it works with XP no problem! the wmp sync wizard pops up but no luck on 7

boohbah said:

Although not satisfactory as a fix ,it is possible to go to the root folders for the albums you are trying to sync
to your stick, right click and select send to and then select the F drive (if it appears!)

I barely copy the entire album. all my songs are playlist files, hence reason why I'm dying to get this sync to work, so even if I have one song in different playlists, it wouldn't copy the file over again and again...would just point to one source.

mitchell65 said:

Ah so I think we can assume we have a Win 7 specific problem. I wonder if a sfc scannow would help. See here:
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

Just might be worth a try! Takes a bit of time so you might want to hang on to see if others agree with this approach! Have PM'd a man who might be able to help!

guess there was nothing wrong with the file system:

C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

C:\Windows\system32>

what would you recommend? (one that has a decent sync functionality?)