A removable drive probably doesn't "report itself" to the O/S until it has a disk in it. It's a hardware/driver thing and not something about WinXP. Think of your removable drive as a floppy drive - granted it's a big, fast floppy ... but it is still handled in the same way that floppies were handled way back in the days when MS-DOS was the best operating system you could run. ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/winxplist.cfm