USB Flash drive problem

I have a 2gig sandisk micro cruzer that has worked fine in XP. I just got a
new Acer laptop and Vista does assign a drive letter to it so I cannot
access it.
It shows on the task bar as a USB storage device. In addition when I try
stop it in the safely remove hardware it stops responding and will not it
turn off. I tried the safe node today and the USB drive woks fine there.
Thanks for any help.


Brian

Hi
The Cruzer is a U3 enabled when you plug it shows the U3 Launch Pad. If you
do not use the U3 get rid of it.
http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Brian" <someone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 2gig sandisk micro cruzer that has worked fine in XP. I just got
>a new Acer laptop and Vista does assign a drive letter to it so I cannot
>access it.
> It shows on the task bar as a USB storage device. In addition when I try
> stop it in the safely remove hardware it stops responding and will not it
> turn off. I tried the safe node today and the USB drive woks fine there.
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Brian

Thanks for the reply. I removed everything from the cruzer on my XP machine
formated it and now Vista says it is an unrecognized USB device.

"Brian" <someone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:77802EC3-EDA4-477D-9CAE-62EB8AC79FE4@microsoft.com...
>I have a 2gig sandisk micro cruzer that has worked fine in XP. I just got
>a new Acer laptop and Vista does assign a drive letter to it so I cannot
>access it.
> It shows on the task bar as a USB storage device. In addition when I try
> stop it in the safely remove hardware it stops responding and will not it
> turn off. I tried the safe node today and the USB drive woks fine there.
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Brian