Blackberry doesnt show as Removable Disk on Windows

Hi Everyone,
It's my first time to post. Just to give you a background, I recently acquired a BB 8900 (v4.6.1.310 (Platform 4.2.0.127)).
I just want to say that i really love this phone. I probably won't be buying any other phone outside BB. If ever I'm upgrading, I'll just get another BB!
Well, I am encountering a problem whenever I try connecting my BB to my PC at work. To give you guys a background I don't have the DESKTOP manager on my work PC, my friend says it's not necessary to access the MicroSD card especially when I just plan on using it like a flash disk.
But whenever I try connecting it what pops out are windows for me to install a two hard drives (Blackberry and RIM Device). I cancel them both but my BB doesn't show as a removable disk on windows.
I've been reading on the pages and I have the Media Card Support: ON, Mass Media Storage: ON and Auto Enable Mass Storage Mode When Connected: YES.
Can anyone help me out regarding this matter? I'd like to use my BB as my flashdisk also whenever I'm going out so I can just have one place to store my presentations and spreadsheets.
I have a colleague here that has the same phone yet he seems to be having no problems on his end, he can access his BB like a flash disk drive.
Anyone's help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
realspenz

Sounds like Windows is behaving perfectly normally by auto detecting your Blackberry when you connect it to the PC,
and just like any other USB device that is connected for the first time, Windows has to instal the drivers for it.
This is not the same as installing the Blackberry Desktop software.
On connecting you say you cancel the Windows message about installing two hard drives -
Have you tried allowing this to run and let Windows instal them ?
If you do you will probably find that the computer will then recognise the Blackberry,
and the memory card in it, and will allow you to access it as you would like.
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