Removable storage drives cannot be read Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by earflea … that the computer will not read from any of the removable storage drives, floppy, cd rom, or DVD. These drives are… Removable drives Programming Software Development by hkiani Hi every one Please help me: How can i found, if there is any disk in a removable drive (floppy drive or cd drive). I am programming with C++Builder. If there is any Win API function for this. Thank you very much. Removable Disk Drive Drops after removing disk Hardware and Software Hardware by troverman … my server for backup purposes. 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Alternatively use DeviceIoControl(). Re: Removable drives Programming Software Development by techniner HAHAHAHAHA Ok So I did not have my first cup of Coffee... I saw C++ and just went to work... smmmmacccckkk... Sorry for wrong info.. was just trying to help.. Re: Removable drives Programming Software Development by hkiani Thank you Stoned_Coder very much. Your Guides were very useful for me. My problem was solved. My main problem was this: The WinXP shows a message "No disk in CD-ROM ..." each time i reference a file in that drive. The SetErrorMode(SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS) solved my problem. I wrote (in C++Builder) the bellow function (Of cource WIN API… Re: Removable Disk Drive Drops after removing disk Hardware and Software Hardware by mechbas Unless you radically change your hardware config. its unlikely that the drive letter will EVER change. What will change with each drive is the drive serial #, something that all MS OSs check depending on circumstance. 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Removable media device not working Community Center by ClassAustralia Hi guys, I am still running win 2K (yeah I know update!) but when I try to use a USB removeable media storage device (Imation) it flashes once then is not identified. I have the usual drives, c, d (dvd), e (cdr-w) on the system and not sure if I need to reassign them or what? I have installed all the ms service pak stuff and this is supposed to… Re: Removable media device not working Community Center by Fungus1487 funnliy enough this happend to me too. Im not running win 2k but have u assigned any more drives recently ? As my computer used to set the usb stick to E: but since a network drive was regsitered as that it hasnt worked since, yet works on other comps ? sorry that another question and not an answer lol Re: Removable media device not working Community Center by ClassAustralia [QUOTE=Fungus1487;360095]funnliy enough this happend to me too. Im not running win 2k but have u assigned any more drives recently ? As my computer used to set the usb stick to E: but since a network drive was regsitered as that it hasnt worked since, yet works on other comps ? sorry that another question and not an answer lol[/QUOTE] Yep I … Removable Storage Desktop icon Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by mmonaco27 Is there a way to have Windows XP place an icon on your desktop when you insert a flash drive, possible to inserted cds as well? Removable storage - can not create COM class object Programming Software Development by convectus28 Hi I have an ActiveX component (docview.dll) with executable path in project file pointing to a dir but registered for a different directory. When deployed on the web server a C++ COM component won't load anymore even it does NOT reference the dll. 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