I recently had a client that could not get a flash drive to work on her workstation. However, the same flash drive worked perfectly on her laptop. So, I plugged my flash drive into her workstation. My flash drive was seen by Windows and given a drive letter perfectly. So this told me that the workstations USB ports were working fine. From this information I figured that her flash drive was not getting assigned a drive letter correctly. The drive letter that her flash drive was using on the laptop was already in use on the workstation. Since she was not removing the flash drive properly it was retaining the assigned drive letter from the laptop. Using the "Safely Remove Hardware" wizard prevents data loss and problems like above. She was not present when I figured out the problem. So, instead of writing her instructions I just created a short video showing how to remove a flash drive safely in Windows XP.
This video was done in flash format orginally. Just click here for the flash version of "Safely Remove Flash Drive" video. I hope this helps someone, if it does let me know.
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