I ran into a similar problem last week. (absolutely could not see my flash drive).
I went into device manager and deleted ALL the USB drivers.
I "refreshed" all the plug and play drivers (reboot if you can't find this) and all the usb devices came up fine including my flash drive.

I am told this is not an unusual occurrence with USB flash drives.

Good Luck
Jim

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> I installed the software  disc that came with the drive but this is  the 
only 
> computer of  the four that didn't automatically detect the drive. All  are 
>  running xp home.

>This sounds like the wrong thing to do...
>For a mass storage  device in XP, you generally do not have to install
>the disk that comes  with it...  Please check your instructions...

Rick  Glazier


I didn't load the software till after I saw the drive wasn't  seen. The drive 
has a LCD display that lights up with menu options  when plugged into the 
computers that did recognize it, but didn't on the  one computer. This is why I 
think David is right about the incorrect power.   

-Phil-



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