Missing Drives

[cschohn]

I recently went to extract pictures off my camera when I realised my computer was no longer recognizing any drives other then c,d, and e. normally There are many many others, f-l or so. Now my computer doesn't recognize any of the extra usb slots or the slots used for memory cards. I am running vista on my xps dell computer which is only 2 years old or so. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Allan]

What are all of those drives? One hd, multiple hd's, external drives? Look in Disk Management - what do you see? Look in Device Mgr - any yellow exclamation marks?

[cschohn]

Everything looks normal, the only exclamation mark is for something that says BT MiniReceiver. I have 2 usb drives up front, something labeled 1394, 3 different memory stick slots, a sm slot, xD slot, and CF/MD slot.

[Allan]

Let's start again. What are all of those drives you mentioned? And what do you see in disk management (are all of those drives there)?

[cschohn]

They are drive F-N and they do not show up in disk managment

[Allan]

AND F-N IS WHAT??

[Computer_Commando]

Everything looks normal, the only exclamation mark is for something that says BT MiniReceiver. I have 2 usb drives up front, something labeled 1394, 3 different memory stick slots, a sm slot, xD slot, and CF/MD slot.

AND F-N IS WHAT??

USB ports, USB Card Reader, etc.  USB never seems to function when it's supposed to.
BTW, 1394 is FireWire.