usb devices not recognized

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Has anybody else noticed a problem with USB devices and XP? I've tried hooking up USB hard drives, cd drives and printers to computers running WinXP and sometimes they don't get recognized, but if I move the devices over to a machine running W2K, there aren't any problems. I've tried doing all updates for WinXP, but nothing seems to help. I noticed somebody else tried uninstalling and reinstalling the USB and that apparently worked for them. Does anybody know how i could go about trying that since there are a couple USB selections within Device Manager? i don't want to uninstall everything under the USB catagory unless that's the only way to do it. Thanks much!
 
Simply delete all entries under Universal Serial Bus Controllers in Device
Manager and reboot. The USB drivers will then be reinstalled by WinXP.
Generally this fixes USB problems.

gary said:
Has anybody else noticed a problem with USB devices and XP? I've tried
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hooking up USB hard drives, cd drives and printers to computers running
WinXP and sometimes they don't get recognized, but if I move the devices
over to a machine running W2K, there aren't any problems. I've tried doing
all updates for WinXP, but nothing seems to help. I noticed somebody else
tried uninstalling and reinstalling the USB and that apparently worked for
them. Does anybody know how i could go about trying that since there are a
couple USB selections within Device Manager? i don't want to uninstall
everything under the USB catagory unless that's the only way to do it.
Thanks much!
 
gary said:
Has anybody else noticed a problem with USB devices and XP? I've tried
Click to expand...
hooking up USB hard drives, cd drives and printers to computers running
WinXP and sometimes they don't get recognized, but if I move the devices
over to a machine running W2K, there aren't any problems. I've tried doing
all updates for WinXP, but nothing seems to help. I noticed somebody else
tried uninstalling and reinstalling the USB and that apparently worked for
them. Does anybody know how i could go about trying that since there are a
couple USB selections within Device Manager? i don't want to uninstall
everything under the USB catagory unless that's the only way to do it.
Thanks much!

With the device connected, right click on My Computer and select Manage. On
the following screen, click on Disk Management. It should now show up on the
right hand side of the screen..... assign it a drive letter.


Marcus
 
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