Winxp Usb Detection Fix

[sand_man]

I received my 2x today and was quite pissed off when XP wouldn't detect it. So I started search the board and found that I should disable USB 2.0 (from within the Device Manager) so I did and so XP 'detected' it. BUT as I read in some other threads, some people, like me found that even though XP detected it, there was no drive listed in my computer. What I then decided to do was go in to the administrative tools (from the control panel) and go to 'Computer Managment'. If your 2x is plugged in there should be an unallocated partition that is about 930MB in size. I doub;e checked my disabling and enabling the usb from the 2x and as expected it disappeared and reappeared. So from there I formatted it as FAT32 and it was then found in My Computer.

I hope I haven't just repeated what other people already knew

 

[nubie]

Yes, about 10 people I have seen personally, seems like every coupla days somebody figures it out.

I noticed that is useful on our school's computers, somebody has disallowed flash drives to mount to their own drive letter, so I go into the management and mount the drive to an empty folder on C:\ (so funny, I can use my flash then, silly IT people ).

 

[Tetedeiench]

A good IT admin should have disabled the UMSS storage driver...

But anyway, it seems that silly users always think they're better than admin, that they know better than them what to do, and always try to find workaroud to basic security measures.

Sigh.

 

[Tobriand]

'Fraid so. Myself included, although not so much these days. Mostly because those security measures seem designed to protect the tech-illiterate from themselves and the computers from them, rather than those who actually know what they're doing from either.

It's the semi-tech-literate who cause problems, e.g. when they know enough to open a hole through a shoddy RM network to the net but not enough to know that an unprotected way of accessing the net is deadly for the entire network - or at least can be. Of course, more often than not, it is actually protected (woe to the sysadmin who decided to skimp on the firewall), but that's not exactly the point, is it?

 

[Tetedeiench]

'Fraid so. Myself included, although not so much these days. Mostly because those security measures seem designed to protect the tech-illiterate from themselves and the computers from them, rather than those who actually know what they're doing from either.

It's the semi-tech-literate who cause problems, e.g. when they know enough to open a hole through a shoddy RM network to the net but not enough to know that an unprotected way of accessing the net is deadly for the entire network - or at least can be. Of course, more often than not, it is actually protected (woe to the sysadmin who decided to skimp on the firewall), but that's not exactly the point, is it?

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True, but even those with a good background can become problems in your day to day work. Every guy that has a non standard computer is one more special case to take care of. I'm taking care of several thousands computers at once ( patching, deploying new apps, upgrading, etc). I've made a study showing that if I spend 4 hours to upgrade 99% of the computers, i spend twice that much on special cases... mainly dictated by people breaking security/administrative measures and real sensible computers requiring special care.

So reading how people are trying to counter your admin measures is ... well.

 

[nubie]

So reading how people are trying to counter your admin measures is ... well.

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Before they disabled the Drive letter assigning the Settings and Administrative tools were inaccessable, I only assume they accidently opened it up when they tried to disable the drive assigning

I forgot to mention that this was the Auto Tech programs' computers only, I think they were tired of me plugging in a HD and downloading everything in sight (haha site :lol: ).

I really don't try to get around all that much, I have DSL at home now, and the only thing that really cheeses me off (I completely understand their feelings on the auto computers and external drives) is the Right-Click disable and the Refresh rate set to 60hz and 1024x768 on 17" CRTs, have these people ever heard of epileptic seizures?

I NEED my right click menu to browse, I browse 3-10 windows at a time, usually by using right-click, open in new window. Having to use ctrl-n and then click the link is a damn waste of time, especially when I am checking out lists of searches on google or ebay, a bad link or a stupid page forces me to reload the webpage, wasting time and computer resources.

 

[Tetedeiench]

Just as i said, you know exactly why they've done that and you desperatly know you can do it harmlessly, you knw all it implies, and you get around what they've done.

Exactly the kind of behaviour i HATE.

 

[nubie]

Just as i said, you know exactly why they've done that and you desperatly know you can do it harmlessly, you knw all it implies, and you get around what they've done.

Exactly the kind of behaviour i HATE.

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Sorry, I really wish they had a suggestion box then.

And I have stopped using my flash drive in those PC's.

I didn't like circumventing it in the first place.