More than likely the cause is that Windows renamed the drive to a letter that is already in use.

This will happen if you have several card readers, thumb drives or external hard drives attached.

It will also happen if you are on a data pipe and have mapped drives.

Find Your Missing USB Drive in Windows XP

To find the drive and then rename it, you’ll want to right-choose My Computer and select Manage.

From the Computer Management screen, select Disk Management.

In this instance I am going to change the drive letter of my Lexar USB drive.

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We don’t want to, so just click Change.

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