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"John Slattery" wrote:
> I really hope someone out there can give me some substantive help with this.
> I have just purchased a Dell 512mb Flash Drive and my system at home will not
> recognize the device. I have also had the same problem with a SanDisk 512 mb
> flash drive. Both of these drives have worked fine on numerous other
> computers. My system is running Windows XP Pro with SP2 loaded. The USB Host
> Controller drivers (Intel) have all been updated, uninstalled, reinstalled,
> and updated again. I have checked everything I can think of in Device
> Manager. I even went into BIOS out of desperation. Nothing I have tried works.
> Another symptom I have noticed is that if I try to boot the machine with the
> Flash Drive inserted, the machine will not boot and tells me it cannot find
> the OS.
> Please help, I've been everything from a software engineer to a network
> administrator, to a programming teacherfor 17 years and I've never had a
> computer problem that frustrated me this much. I've googled this to death and
> it seems like i see the problem posted a lot, but no useful solutions.
> HELP!!!!!
> I really hope someone out there can give me some substantive help with this.
> I have just purchased a Dell 512mb Flash Drive and my system at home will not
> recognize the device. I have also had the same problem with a SanDisk 512 mb
> flash drive. Both of these drives have worked fine on numerous other
> computers. My system is running Windows XP Pro with SP2 loaded. The USB Host
> Controller drivers (Intel) have all been updated, uninstalled, reinstalled,
> and updated again. I have checked everything I can think of in Device
> Manager. I even went into BIOS out of desperation. Nothing I have tried works.
> Another symptom I have noticed is that if I try to boot the machine with the
> Flash Drive inserted, the machine will not boot and tells me it cannot find
> the OS.
> Please help, I've been everything from a software engineer to a network
> administrator, to a programming teacherfor 17 years and I've never had a
> computer problem that frustrated me this much. I've googled this to death and
> it seems like i see the problem posted a lot, but no useful solutions.
> HELP!!!!!
