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Local Drives Hidden in Windows 7

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Swampster

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Greetings from Sunny Central Florida,

I have been testing Win 7 from beta to RC and now have three installations of Win 7 RTM. All previous installations went as expected: Fresh install on a cleaned drive on my TestBed system (Home Premium). Upgrade install (Vista Business SP2) of Win 7 Pro on home system. And last but not least, my problem child, an Upgrade installation on this system which was also from Vista Business to Win 7 Pro.

Everything seemed to go all right with the installation until I went into Windows Explorer and found that although Computer was displayed in the left window, it would not show me its contents. I can type a specific address into the address bar (such as C:\), and it shows the contents with no problem.

I can plug in a new device, such as a thumb drive, and it shows it being installed, but it doesn's show up under Computer, but can be accessed manually from the Address Bar.

I can go to Computer/Manage/Disk Management, and all drive show up correctly.

Anybody have any suggestions?
 
There's an option to hide empty drives. Is your USB drive empty?

I think it's a great feature. I was so tired of seeing 5 different "drives" from an empty multi-card reader.
 
Hi Blinky,

No, I am missing ALL my drives C: (D: not turned on, so it shouldn't be displayed), E: (CD/DVD burner) and F: (thumb drive).

If I click on Computer in the left window, all I get is blank space in the right window where its drives should be displayed.
 
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