You should now be done! Test by unplugging and replugging the board. You should
see the CIRCUITPY drive, and when you double-click the reset button (single click on
Circuit Playground Express running MakeCode), you should see the appropriateboar
dnameBOOT drive.
Let us know in the Adafruit support forums() or on the Adafruit Discord() if this does
not work for you!
Windows Explorer Locks Up When
Accessing boardnameBOOT Drive
On Windows, several third-party programs that can cause issues. The symptom is that
you try to access the boardnameBOOTdrive, and Windows or Windows Explorer
seems to lock up. These programs are known to cause trouble:
AIDA64: to fix, stop the program. This problem has been reported to AIDA64.
They acquired hardware to test, and released a beta version that fixes the
problem. This may have been incorporated into the latest release. Please let us
know in the forums if you test this.
Hard Disk Sentinel
Kaspersky anti-virus: To fix, you may need to disable Kaspersky completely.
Disabling some aspects of Kaspersky does not always solve the problem. This
problem has been reported to Kaspersky.
ESET NOD32 anti-virus: There have been problems with at least version
9.0.386.0, solved by uninstallation.
Copying UF2 to boardnameBOOT Drive
Hangs at 0% Copied
On Windows, a Western DIgital (WD) utility that comes with their external USB drives
can interfere with copying UF2 files to the boardnameBOOT drive. Uninstall that utility
to fix the problem.
The Windows Drivers installer was last updated in November 2020 (v2.5.0.0) .
Windows 7 drivers for CircuitPython boards released since then, including
RP2040 boards, are not yet available. The boards work fine on Windows 10. A
new release of the drivers is in process.
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