I have an HP ENVY h8-1534 PC running WIn 8 and now WIn8.1
I keep having, intermittent, trouble with two different Sandisk Cruzer Fit Drives. One 16 GB and the other 32 GB.
Generally when I plug either in I hear a beep... Device Manager recognizes the drives as Disk Drives : San Disk Cruzer Fit,
Portable Drives recognizes the drives with their label or Drive Letter.. It seems to change
In Windows Explorer when clicked," This PC" will search ,and find the appropriate Drive Letter... R:\ or S:\ and list it under Devices and Drives
but only about 1 time in 10 or 20 will the drive be recognized as a Drive under "This PC" (Far Left Column)... Below OS(C:), Recovery Image (D:) and ("what is now missing as" DVD RW Drive (E:)")
When "This PC" finishes searching, Drive "R" or Drive" S" will appear below other normal drives for a second then disappear again. BUT still remain under Devices and Drives.
Under Computer Management\Portable drives the USB Drive will, randomly appear as Errored.
I have tried EVERY hint I have been able to find both here on HP and on the SanDisk site with remarkably similiar but useless results.
I have just tried drives by; Lexar, Corsair, Toshiba, and Kingston and they all seem to work fine...
But the Sandisk drive continue to malfunction.... AND my DVD drive is still missing. I had problems with the DVD when I first tried to burn a DVD and had to uninstall the drive and reinstall it.... which seemed to work for a while.
Theses Sandisk USB drives work fine in every other machine I have but they are all running XP.
SO I am Stumped......
Thanks
Peter
