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Thanks for the input. All sounded logical but no improvement. Its not the professional version and the key in question did not exist. :(. Interesting thing about the cleanup tool--After running it and restarting then plugging in the flash drive I would have expected a notification to say it...

Thanks for the clarification. More research to find out what that is--probably wont solve my problem but I'll look

Doesn't work for me :(. I can't see the option to hide or unhide my drives. Windows 8.1 :(. following the instructions Perhaps I'm in the wrong application? I'm using Disk Management on my desktop because drives that are shown as "online" are not appearing in explorer so I hoped that toggling...

Here are the two images of the computer manager and Explorer. The disks I insert are seen and drive letters assigned. I can right click and open the drives in the manager but they fail to be shown in Explorer.

You could be right with the repair install. computer management sees the flash drives which can be opened and the data accessed from computer management/storage. Seems as if there is a process not running whose purpose would be to update explorer. BTW yes everything else works fine after the...

I'm dreading this but think I'll have to start from scratch����������. Took me forever to set up the environment that includes an ssd. Such is life. Thank you all for you input

Thanks. Yes have tried that. Now the question might be how to unassigned static drive letters. It may be that some letters are reserved in explorer but not in storage management? Seems like a registry corruption to me. Might have been induced when Dell replaced the mobo

Thanks for the idea. Still no luck in fact USB oblivion made things worse. I have noticed that when I change drive letters on a USB drive it seems to FIX that letter to that drive--could that be true? Perhaps the other ports on the machine also have 'fixed' or reserved letters so if I plug in...

Done most of the stuff in the tutorial before I posted--renaming the drive helps then after a reset its back to the old problem. Its as if drive letters are reserved by explorer but not by the Storage manager. Have no issues opening the drive from the management tool. ????

No errors using scannow Its a Dell xps8700

Some USB drives are not being seen in explorer. If I plug in a drive to a running system windows recognizes the drive assigns a drive letter which is visible in COMPUTER MANAGEMENT but not in the explorer windows. From management I can open the drive and all is well If I change the assigned...