13 May, 2007 at 2:01 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Troubleshooting, Windows
You’ve probably run into a drive lettering conflict.
Possible Symptoms
- At home, your PC sees your flash drive as drive letter E. (I’m using E as an example)
- You go to work and plug in your USB stick, but it doesn’t show up.
The likely culprit
This is probably because your PC at work already has a Drive E assigned - Windows can’t have two drives with the same drive letter, so your Flash drive can’t be used. To use it, we need to change the drive letter assigned to the flash stick.
How to fix it
- Right click on My Computer.
- Click ‘Manage’.
- Click ‘Disk Management’ in the Left pane.
- Locate your flash stick in the right pane.
- Right click on it, and choose ‘Change Drive Letter and Paths…’.
- Click either Change or Add, and assign the drive a new letter. (I usually pick something high up the alphabet, like ‘R’)
- Ta-da! Your Flash drive should now appear
Did this help you at all? Any questions? Feel free to leave me a comment below!
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17 April, 2007 at 8:18 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Troubleshooting, Windows
This is a guide for anyone who receives the “No partition selected” error when trying to run a system recovery on their Asus Laptop.
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14 April, 2007 at 10:58 am
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Networking, Security, Troubleshooting, Wi-Fi, Windows
A step-by-step guide to decrypting WPA with Wireshark and AirPcap in Windows. Read the rest of this entry »
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2 April, 2007 at 12:51 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Troubleshooting, Wi-Fi
The guys over at Metageek are gearing up to release a new version of the well-received Wi-Spy 2.4GHz spectrum analyser, which will include an SMA connector for connecting external antennas.
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25 March, 2007 at 2:24 pm
by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Troubleshooting, Virtualisation
When installing Fedora Core 6 on my Windows VMware setup, it failed to find any disks to install on. The reason? I selected the Guest OS as “Red Hat Linux”, seeing as Fedora Core has direct lineaege from Red Hat. Anyway, it doesn’t work and fails to find a disk. To get around this, choose “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4″ or “Other Linux 2.6.x kernel” and it’ll find the Virtual SCSI disk perfectly.
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