Drives missing from My Computer?

Question

The F. G. & H. drives are missing from My Computer. These are all (I guess you would call them) external ports.... One is a SD card reader that's built into the pc that I've used many times to load pictures, then one day I booted up my pc, and all the drives were missing! Nothing happens when I put my SD card in the slot.

Their not exactly USB ports, the SD card reader (which was drive H) is built directly into the tower. There's a few other slots, but I have no use for them.

Please help, I have pictures I need to take off my card and put on my pc! Oh, and I have Windows Vista too

Answer 1

Try the following. Although it's not "exactly" a USB port, it will be connected to a USB header internally



Go into device manager (Right click My Computer, select PROPERTIES, HARDWARE, DEVICE MANAGER)

Scroll down to the Universal Serial Bus tree, click the + at left to expand the tree

RIGHT CLICK any idem that is either a USB CONTROLLER or USB ROOT HUB and select DELETE (it only removes a reference the files to use it are still on the system)

NOW reboot the PC and let windows do it's "found new hardware" thing for a few minutes.

Reboot again and try a USB device. This usually fixes unresponsive USB systems.



Hope that helps . . . Good luck.



If not, time to callmanufacturer support for more "specific" advice, COULD be the card reader failed

Answer 2

The driver for the card reader ports isn't loading up when you boot up. The solution could be as simple as restarting your computer or as bad a reloading the driver.



good Luck

Answer 3

it seems that ur system is not detecting the media card reader. click on start > start search > and type in devmgmt.msc > it will open device manager, look for ur memory card under disk drives, in case if u see yellow question or exckamation marks, that means drivers are missing ! write back and let me know if u see the media card listed in device manager.

Answer 4

Hi,

this is strange have you tried going back one restore point ?? as i don't think it's a simple problem. sorry i can't help you anymore.

Answer 5

download files