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From: Uwe Sieber <m...@uwe-sieber.de>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Subject: Re: USB Flash drive recognized - but doesn't show up in My Computer
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:07:39 +0200
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madprogram...@gmail.com wrote:
> Interesting... I think I may have had a failed install of Daemon Tools
> V4 not long ago! - I'll look into that, and check if there is a
> fix/work around.

The fix is to delete some files from \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

sptd.sys
secdrv.sys
sptd.sys
sptd????.sys (???? = numbers)

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/archive/index.php/t-7868.html

> I just took a quick look at MountPoints2 and it has a lot of stuff in
> it! MountedDevices is currently empty. Deleting the whole MountPoints2
> hive kind of scares me. I'll look into this as well though.


MountedDevices is empty? Very strange...



Uwe