[samcko]

howdy, I'm having the same issues as most if not all of the other users of whom have posted on forum the only problem is, the sdpt (or what have you) is NOT listed in the registry, Alcohol 120 has Never been installed, have upgraded to sp3 recently but believe issue has been there 'forever' but as the pc/laptop has not been used in over 6-48months probably never noticed, also never really used external devices on it. I have been required to 'backup' most of the data off the laptop to do a full scale recovery (format and destroy then 'recover' or if you wish full scale start from scratch) as the sound and various other issues are becoming an issue even PRIOR to sp3 install.

But as this is to do with drives etc. not being assigned letters or are assigned but not visable to the OS (Operating System e.g Win xp etc.) i will continue, I have looked at most of the solutions listed and found that none would actually solve this issue (the ext drive not being seen in win), and so i've decided to ask for a little more help.

Have looked through the services list, looked through the registry, looked just about everywhere for the service that is supposed to be wrecking havoc on so many of the posters computers and yet the laptop does not have the file or service listed anywhere, hence find it not to be that issue, for now i'm backing up the data all via the DOS prompt, as one poster did say that they could access the drive via the prompt but not win, I didn't think of trying it, hence tried and true method. But nevertheless, bit annonying having to continually use copy, xcopy, del, etc commands to modify the files/folders on the ext drive.

Cheers.
Simon.