200W not recognized as a drive on new PC

 

I have a new PC (within last 3 days) and when I plug Nüvi 200W into the USB port it does not show a Garmin drive. If an SD card is in the device the SD card shows up as a drive but the Nüvi still does not show up.

Any suggestions on what to try?

Thanks!

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

When you attach your 200 what happens

Does it just start charging or go into mass storage mode? I know somethime my 760 takes quite a while to show up, but always by the time the sd card does. I have confused which sd card I am looking at when I have had a reader attached...

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200W not recognized...

When I plug into the USB port the nüvi goes through its boot procedure and loads the map. The next thing that appears is the little picture of a nüvi connected via a USB cable (per usual... probably the mass storage mode).

When I look on the PC at my list of mapped drives the only drive that gets added is the SD removable drive. The Garmin drive does not show up. On my previous PC things worked ... one might say, smashingly!

Thanks again for any help.

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

garmin usb driver

try install the garmin usb driver at:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=591

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200W not recognized...

Well, I tried installing the USB drivers. The drivers installed okay but still no Garmin drive. I kicked off the regedit utility (Note: don't try this at home, I am a certified novice nüvi hack and know what the heck I'm doin' here! :-/ )

I removed the software keys thinkin' that might make a diff... wrong. I removed the Garmin programs through the control panel to no effect. I think I need to get the PC to think the Garmin is a new hardware device. I've tried talking to it and it just sits there like a ... well, like a plastic brick.

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

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damdefoe wrote:

when I plug Nüvi 200W into the USB port it does not show a Garmin drive.

Have a look in the "Disk Management" Snap-in. Maybe it's there, but without a drive letter assigned?

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is the PC running Vista?

is the PC running Vista?

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PC has XP SP2

I'm running WinXP service pack 2.

When I look at the device list in the device manager it shows a Garmin nüvi Flash USB Device and a Garmin nüvi SD Card USB Device. I have removed the drivers for these devices so that when I plug in the USB cable it finds new hardware and automatically installs new drivers. Windows installs drivers for these devices and I don't know that the Garmin drivers override the default Windows drivers.

Are there individual drivers from Garmin I can install for the 200W, I don't see any on their website. Kicking off the USBDrivers_221.exe doesn't seem to have an effect.

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

The darndest thing is that

The darndest thing is that the device manager shows a detailed description of the device but the Garmin will show up on the drive list (now?) as a Removable drive but when I select it I am prompted to install a disk in the drive. If I insert the SD card it takes over the Removable drive mapping and I can browse what data is on the card.

Control over the SD card is fine and dandy... but I like the good ol' days when I could also browse around on the nüvi.

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

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Mariner posted a link to drivers a few messages up in this thread. Did you try that?

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Garmin drivers

Yup, I downloaded the driver executable and followed the install procedures. Still no luck.

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

Have you tried a different usb cable?

damdefoe wrote:

The darndest thing is that the device manager shows a detailed description of the device but the Garmin will show up on the drive list (now?) as a Removable drive but when I select it I am prompted to install a disk in the drive. If I insert the SD card it takes over the Removable drive mapping and I can browse what data is on the card.

Control over the SD card is fine and dandy... but I like the good ol' days when I could also browse around on the nüvi.

I have seen usb cables that will function with one device and not another... It's worth a try

I don't have a 200 but my 760 shows two devices listed under disk drives in the device manager:
Garmin nuvi flash usb device
Garmin nuvi SD card usb device

I don't believe you do need to install extra drivers, windows should find and install the devices automatically, but obviously it's not. If a different usb cable doesn't help, you might call Garmin, they may have a solution...

When you load a poi to a SD card, can you move it to the 200? If so then how would you remove it if you can't access it with either windows or the poi loader? What happens with the Webupdater does it find the device?

Once again I'm full of questions without a solution.. shock

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Different types of USB cables

Am no expert on USB Cables or Garmin 200W (just bought one about 3 days ago myself after years with the original Tom Tom Go).

But, I learned for the first time in buying a USB cable from my favorite local computer store that there are several types of USB cables (depending upon number and setting of the pins) - apparently I lucked out in the one I selected.

It took my NUVI 200W longer than I expected to go through the initial Boot process, first was recognized only as "Unknown Device," then as USB Drive, and finally as a "Garmin Nuvi" under "Windows Explorer" with two sub-directories - Garmin and JPEG. I haven't installed an SD card yet. This is via Windows XP SP2 with the latest updates.

All I can add from previous experience of the kind you mention is:

1. Remove all other USB storage devices (safely) and restart the computer, then plug in the NUVI. (For some reason my XP SP2 sometimes has problems when multiple storate devices, especially flash cards are installed.)*

2. If this doesn't work, try a different variety of USB Card.

BH
*Don't understand this, but assume that either my system or XP SP2 limitations are involved. In any case removing the other USB sticks has solved similar problems that I have had with MP3 players and cameras.

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I noticed that you refer to

I noticed that you refer to XP SP 2.This may be off subject but Windows XP Service Pack 3 is available.Not sure if it may help the problem but could't hurt.

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Try Disk Management

As a previous user mentioned, try checking the Disk Management snap-in to see if the nuvi is assigned a drive letter. To do this, connect your nuvi, right-click on My Computer, then click on Manage. In the left pane, click Disk Management. On the right, on the lower pane you should see a removable disk that has the name nuvi with a drive letter in parenthesis. If there is no drive letter, right-click in the area where it says 'nuvi', then click 'Change Drive Letter and Paths', and add a drive letter that is not in use. You may receive a warning message that changing the drive letter may cause some programs to no longer work. Just click Yes and change the drive letter anyway.

Boot

Full shut down of computer and boot with with the Nuvi plugged in?

Beginning to see some light...

The Disk Management is helping indirectly.

I am working on a PC in a network environment and there are 5 drives mapped automatically during the PC boot routine.

Aside from an external hard drive that I have connected the other drive letters are predetermined and mapped at each boot.

My external hard drive is mapped to drive E: and the next available drive, F: is always assigned (hard-coded) to a network drive. If I unmap that drive the Garmin drive shows up and I can browse to my hearts content. When I insert the SD card that also shows up and things are honky-dorey. The only thing missing is the cute little Garmin icon in front of the Garmin drive.

I seem to be making some headway and really appreciate all of the help given here. Thanks a bunch!

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

Nuvi Icon

damdefoe wrote:

The Disk Management is helping indirectly.

I am working on a PC in a network environment and there are 5 drives mapped automatically during the PC boot routine.

Aside from an external hard drive that I have connected the other drive letters are predetermined and mapped at each boot.

My external hard drive is mapped to drive E: and the next available drive, F: is always assigned (hard-coded) to a network drive. If I unmap that drive the Garmin drive shows up and I can browse to my hearts content. When I insert the SD card that also shows up and things are honky-dorey. The only thing missing is the cute little Garmin icon in front of the Garmin drive.

I seem to be making some headway and really appreciate all of the help given here. Thanks a bunch!

I think that if you change the drive letter of the nuvi, you should be able to see the icon. Windows has a weird quirk in that it doesn't take into account any network drives that are mapped when it assigns drive letters to local disks. I have seen this problem several times when working with removable disks on machines with network drives mapped.

Same problem

damdefoe wrote:

The Disk Management is helping indirectly.

I am working on a PC in a network environment and there are 5 drives mapped automatically during the PC boot routine.

Aside from an external hard drive that I have connected the other drive letters are predetermined and mapped at each boot.

My external hard drive is mapped to drive E: and the next available drive, F: is always assigned (hard-coded) to a network drive. If I unmap that drive the Garmin drive shows up and I can browse to my hearts content. When I insert the SD card that also shows up and things are honky-dorey. The only thing missing is the cute little Garmin icon in front of the Garmin drive.

I seem to be making some headway and really appreciate all of the help given here. Thanks a bunch!

Ahhhhh......... I had the same problem with a flash drive in a networked environment. It turned out that Windows was trying to assign the drive as G: but that was a different drive located out on the network so the flash drive never showed up. I used the disk manager to assign the flash drive the permanent drive letter Z: and it worked flawlessly after that.

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Sweet smell of success

I've taken the drive that was automatically mapped to the F: drive and moved it farther down the alphabet and it seems to have fixed the issue.

Both drives now show up when I connect the nüvi to the USB.

Thanks again for the help everyone!

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-damdefoe (Nüvi 200W, GPS12) "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

Look closer at Disk Management

Hornbyp wrote:
damdefoe wrote:

when I plug Nüvi 200W into the USB port it does not show a Garmin drive.

Have a look in the "Disk Management" Snap-in. Maybe it's there, but without a drive letter assigned?

I have also solved a problem or two with Disk Management. The problem I had was that I had two things trying to get the same drive letter and the Nuvi would lose.

In my case, when I would VPN to work, it would assign a couple of network folders as drive G and H. And the Nuvi wanted to be drive G, too. So if G was already assigned, the Nuvi would just not get recognized. In Disk Management, I could see the Nuvi Drive and I assigned it to something higher that would never conflict, like N.