On Mar 6, 11:18 pm, Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:04:37 -0800 (PST), Old Guy
put finger to keyboard and composed:

I just installed a PCI adapter to use PCMCIA SRAM cards in my win98
desktop computer. Windows recognized both the adapter and the memory
card and installed new drivers. I rebooted. Control panel-System
reports the devices are there and working properly. The problem is
that the drive has not been assigned a drive letter and doesn't show
up in My Computer or Windows File Manager so I can't transfer files to
or from the card. There is no icon for it that I can see other than
one in the Task Bar that allows you to stop the drive for card
removal. It works. What am I missing?

Four suggestions:
Thanks very much. Sorry for taking so long to respond.

(1) Use TweakUI to check whether the higher drive letters are hidden.
I didn't have this program. I downloaded it and ran it. I saw no
options that would be useful

(2) Try executing "fdisk /status" in a DOS window.
Only my non partitioned (primaryonly) C drive showed up.

(3) Try "vol d:", where "d:" can be D:, E:, F:, etc.
I tried this for every letter of the alphabet beyond D, my CD-ROM. All
were invalid.

(4) Type the following line at the command prompt (it looks like two
lines but is actually one long line). If required, respond with "Fail"
to "Abort, Retry, Fail?". This should find all the existing drive
letters, whether visible or hidden.

command /c for %%i in (c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y
z) do vol %%i: | find /i "volume"
I tried this a few times and kept getting "invalid parameter ( list of
letters)"

- Franc Zabkar
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Device Manager reports the following are all installed and working
properly:
Memory Technology Drivers
SRAM Memory Card (series 1)
PCMCIA Socket
PCMCIA Card Services
Ricoh RL5C475 Card Bus Controller

The card is listed in Hardware in System Tools under Miscellaneous,
not in Storage Devices.