mapped drive interference
Something to check which may or may not be related. Do you have any Windows mapped drives eg as (E: ) or possibly other mapped hardware immediately after the hard disk (C: ) and DVD-RW drive (D: )? If so you might have problems. For some unknown reason, on my machine MBP core 2 duo (running bootcamp, as I had to give up on parallels for the moment), any USB drive will only mount if there is a drive letter space vacant for them before any mapped drives.
Something to look out for. Of course you can always use the disk management function in the Windows Computer Management console (under Administration Tools menu) to permanantly change the drive letter mapping for any device.
Hope this helps.
chris
Last edited: Nov 29, 2006