I have 3 new drives - NOT

Vista Home Premium
Recently installed a program. Not going to stake my life this is
related to the new program, but now Explorer shows 3 new drives - all
Removable and all No Media. Problem is, I have added no new drives.
The PC has 4 slots for memory cards and each slot appears as a drive.
The C drive shows as does an NAS drive. I have no other drives attached
to the PC. Where did I get these new drives?

j lunis wrote:

> Vista Home Premium
> Recently installed a program. Not going to stake my life this is
> related to the new program, but now Explorer shows 3 new drives - all
> Removable and all No Media. Problem is, I have added no new drives.
> The PC has 4 slots for memory cards and each slot appears as a drive.
> The C drive shows as does an NAS drive. I have no other drives attached
> to the PC. Where did I get these new drives?

Possibly you installed a printer with SD slots?

Malke
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Malke wrote:
> j lunis wrote:
>
>> Vista Home Premium
>> Recently installed a program. Not going to stake my life this is
>> related to the new program, but now Explorer shows 3 new drives - all
>> Removable and all No Media. Problem is, I have added no new drives.
>> The PC has 4 slots for memory cards and each slot appears as a drive.
>> The C drive shows as does an NAS drive. I have no other drives attached
>> to the PC. Where did I get these new drives?
>
> Possibly you installed a printer with SD slots?
>
> Malke

Ah, I have a printer with SD slots but have had it since spring.
I suppose it is possible the drives were just now recognized. Possible?

j lunis wrote:

> Ah, I have a printer with SD slots but have had it since spring.
> I suppose it is possible the drives were just now recognized. Possible?

Yes, it's possible. Stick something in one of them and see if it shows up!

Malke
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Malke wrote:
> j lunis wrote:
>
>> Ah, I have a printer with SD slots but have had it since spring.
>> I suppose it is possible the drives were just now recognized. Possible?
>
> Yes, it's possible. Stick something in one of them and see if it shows up!
>
> Malke

OK, Malke, did that.
Nutin happened on the PC, kinda.
The printer 'found' the card in the slot and asked i Inted tto connect
the PC. ced 'Yes.' Got a message from Norton - I gave the transfer
permission. Then . . . nutin.
I suppose this means some communication got the the PC (Norton) but my
new drives show nothing.

Ubuntista Vistuntu wrote:
> yes... card reader slots (SD) show up as drives
>
> don't worry about it.. your hard drive did not have offspring.
>
> If it did, tell me how it did it because I could use some new ones ;-)
>
> "j lunis" <> wrote in message
> news:#xL5#...
>> Malke wrote:
>>> j lunis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Vista Home Premium
>>>> Recently installed a program. Not going to stake my life this is
>>>> related to the new program, but now Explorer shows 3 new drives - all
>>>> Removable and all No Media. Problem is, I have added no new drives.
>>>> The PC has 4 slots for memory cards and each slot appears as a drive.
>>>> The C drive shows as does an NAS drive. I have no other drives
>>>> attached
>>>> to the PC. Where did I get these new drives?
>>>
>>> Possibly you installed a printer with SD slots?
>>>
>>> Malke
>>
>> Ah, I have a printer with SD slots but have had it since spring.
>> I suppose it is possible the drives were just now recognized. Possible?
>
And if it matters, when I unplug (electrical) the network printer, the
printer disappears from Explorer but the 3 mystery drives remain. Plug
back in and turning on the printer and it reappears in Explorer.

Talk about confusion - the slots" on the printer do not "Show up" as
drives - they function only with the printer - in fact it is not necessary
to have the printer connected to a computer to utilize them.

Slots on a PC do "show up" as drives.


"j lunis" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Malke wrote:
>> j lunis wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, I have a printer with SD slots but have had it since spring.
>>> I suppose it is possible the drives were just now recognized. Possible?
>>
>> Yes, it's possible. Stick something in one of them and see if it shows
>> up!
>>
>> Malke
>
> OK, Malke, did that.
> Nutin happened on the PC, kinda.
> The printer 'found' the card in the slot and asked i Inted tto connect the
> PC. ced 'Yes.' Got a message from Norton - I gave the transfer
> permission. Then . . . nutin.
> I suppose this means some communication got the the PC (Norton) but my new
> drives show nothing.

Em Quinta, 23 de Outubro de 2008 21:14, AJR escreveu:

> Talk about confusion - the slots" on the printer do not "Show up" as
> drives - they function only with the printer - in fact it is not necessary
> to have the printer connected to a computer to utilize them.
>
> Slots on a PC do "show up" as drives.
>
>
> "j lunis" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Malke wrote:
>>> j lunis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah, I have a printer with SD slots but have had it since spring.
>>>> I suppose it is possible the drives were just now recognized.
>>>> Possible?
>>>
>>> Yes, it's possible. Stick something in one of them and see if it shows
>>> up!
>>>
>>> Malke
>>
>> OK, Malke, did that.
>> Nutin happened on the PC, kinda.
>> The printer 'found' the card in the slot and asked i Inted tto connect
>> the
>> PC. ced 'Yes.' Got a message from Norton - I gave the transfer
>> permission. Then . . . nutin.
>> I suppose this means some communication got the the PC (Norton) but my
>> new drives show nothing.

wrong.
at least in HP and Cannon printers, card slots can be accessed from the
computer, so, in windows it creats a drive letter for each card slot



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Em Quinta, 23 de Outubro de 2008 15:52, j lunis escreveu:

> Vista Home Premium
> Recently installed a program. Not going to stake my life this is
> related to the new program,
what program? what does it do?


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