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San Disk USB Mini-Drive not Recognized by XP

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My San Disk USB mini-drive powers up, was seen as new hardware by XP which prompted me to allow it to install. However, the San Disk is not in Device Manager or Windows Explorer. I have tried allowing XP to find the drive on boot up or by inserting drive into USB port. The USB port works...I have confirmned that.

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