{"id":73,"date":"2006-05-26T20:13:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T00:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2006-05-26T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T00:13:38","slug":"usb-drives-a-handy-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"USB drives: a handy trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a freecom <span class=\"caps\">USB <\/span>hard drive, on sale at Morgan Computer for &pound;70 to have backups of everything while I was away (and most of my music collection, for later transfer to the Zen micro). It would not work in either of the computers here. I took it back; it worked in the shop, on their computers. On mine it showed up as a connected <span class=\"caps\">USB <\/span>device, but not as a disk drive.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then I discovered that my little memory stick wasn&#8217;t recognised as a disk drive either. This is known good and has worked for years on the other laptop. So it had to be a flaw in the computer. To cut a long  google short, there was a confusion of drive letters in the logical drive manager because I have masses of network drives mapped as letters.  Assigning the <span class=\"caps\">USB <\/span>drive to something high and unused made it show up at once as a proper disk drive. I offer this tip for the eye of Google, and assistance of passers by.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a freecom <span class=\"caps\">USB <\/span>hard drive, on sale at Morgan Computer for &pound;70 to have backups of everything while I was away (and most of my music collection, for later transfer to the Zen micro). It would not work &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=73\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=73\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}