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Hi all,

New to pyboard, but I am really excited to get going. When I first got the board, I was able to view the pyboard as a USB Drive. After I got REPL on Windows 10 working, however, I no longer see the pyboard through usb. REPL through puTTy works, but sometimes I want to edit the main.py directly. Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks.

You may open disk manager to see if there is a disk without drive number.

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You may open disk manager to see if there is a disk without drive number.
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I don't see a disk without a drive number, but it device manager shows two COM ports for the pyboard, "Python Board USB COM Port (COM7)" and "Python Board USB COM Port (COM8)". I cannot communicate via serial to COM8 (via putty) but can to COM7. I'm guessing this is the problem, any ideas how to fix it?

FIXED:

I simply had to replace the driver for the extra (and malfunctioning) Pyboard COM8 device with the USB Mass Storage Device driver in the Windows 10 device manager. Thanks.

hi gooseCookie, can you please point me to how you've been installing REPL drivers for Win 10? I have different problem: I cannot make my PyBoard Lite to show up as COM port in device manager.

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hi gooseCookie, can you please point me to how you've been installing REPL drivers for Win 10? I have different problem: I cannot make my PyBoard Lite to show up as COM port in device manager.
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I also am new to Pyboard and I can't show my PB as COM port. Have you found your solution?

To be honest I opted for not the most lightweight solution - I've installed Ubuntu as my second OS and it made my development life much easier.