FLAS disk not recognized

I have a problem of access to other external USB drives and flash memory. Once connected, I can see the drive and open the files on it in Windows Explorer (I am running Windows XP - SP3). For example, when I click on a Word document, the file starts Word and opens the individual file. The player also appears in the "Disk management" section of MY COMPUTER.
However, the reader does not appear on the home page when I click on MY COMPUTER. More important still, I can't call a file in within an individual program. Once I'm in Word, Excel or any program, and I go to file/open, the drive does not appear.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Kind regards... Mac

One of the best pages troubleshooting I found for USB disk problems is the following:

"Troubleshooting for USB Drives.
<>http://www.Uwe-Sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html >

I hope that something it will be useful.

HTH,
JW

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