The computer does not assign a drive letter to my sansa e250 when I plug it in the my laptop which is using Vista OS

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Alot on times if your MP3 player or USB drive will not show up in My Computer you need to assign a drive letter to it because the default drive letter it want is already assigned to another device. The links below will help you do this.

How to change your drive letter in Windows Vista and Windows 7

How to change your drive letter in Windows XP

Let me know if you have any more problems or questions

Issken
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Alot of times the player is actually being detected but it just is not showing up in My Computer because the drive letter that the device wants is already assigned to another device. The links below will help you assign another drive letter to the player.

How to change your drive letter in Windows Vista and Windows 7

How to change your drive letter in Windows XP
Let me know if you have any more problems or questions

Issken
http://www.fixya.com/users/issken

Turn the player off before you plug it in and if it doesn't find it then turn it on while plug in.

It could be that the OS is not assigning a drive letter to your removable drive. To do this, go to disk management and assign one.



Right-click My Computer then Manage
Click on Disk Management
Right-click the removable drive and click on Change Drive Letter
Assign a drive letter and click OK
Your drive should now show up on My Computer

Hope this helps.

It could be that the OS is not assigning a drive letter to your removable drive. To do this, go to disk management and assign one.

Assuming OS is Win 2000/XP/Vista

Right-click My Computer then Manage
Click on Disk Management
Right-click the removable drive and click on Change Drive Letter
Assign a drive letter and click OK
Your drive should now show up on My Computer

Hope this helps.

It could be that the OS is not assigning a drive letter to your removable drive. To do this, go to disk management and assign one.

Assuming OS is Win 2000/XP/Vista

Right-click My Computer then Manage
Click on Disk Management
Right-click the removable drive and click on Change Drive Letter
Assign a drive letter and click OK
Your drive should now show up on My Computer

Hope this helps.

Ok, there are a few steps that I need you to do...
with your MP3 plugged into the computer, goto:
-> DESKTOP (front page of the computer)
-> right click on MY COMPUTER
-> left click on MAP NETWORK DRIVE
-> left click on the DRIVE Z:
-> now that this is open, look for an open drive (ex:O,P,Q - do not pick A or Z drive), so we won't wreck another drive when creating a spot for your MP3 Player and remember the open drive letter, and close off this page.

Now that you have the drive letter:
-> Right click on MY COMPUTER
-> left click on MANAGE
-> look for DISK MANAGEMENT and left click on it
-> you should see Volume for SYSTEM and UNKNOWN or REMOVABLE
-> right click on unknown/removable and assign/change to the drive letter from the previous task
-> press ok to save

That should get you to your MP3 player on your computer.

control panel, computer management, storage section, disk management. you may have to download the administrative tools for windows xp/2000/vista to find this. if you have multiple memory card readers, the drive letter assignments to these drives are conflicting with the drive letter that is being assigned to your external hard drive. assign the partition of your hard drive a letter not used down in the alphabet (such as x:) for e*X*ternal.

Use Windows Media Player to transfer

If you are using windows xp or vista you do not need any cd's to use the sansa. Simply plug it into your usb port and windows will see it. If you look at the icon next to your clock in the lower right corner of your computer, you should see that a usb device has been plugged in. The next thing to do is go into windows explorer or "My Computer" and look for new drives. those would be the drives on the sansa. probably drive letters e or f. if you have an additional memory card installed in the sansa you will see both. next copy the mp3's into the drives of your sansa. when you unplug the sansa, start it up and go into the music section of the sansa menu. you should see anything that you moved over.
if this has not been helpful or you do not have any luck seeing the additional drives, let me know what your operating system is and we can go from there.
good luck