RE: USB Drive not recognized - Driving me crazy!!!

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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!!!!!
 
Igraepel and John Slattery
I am no computer boffin but the registry fix I mentioned in my previous
post worked for me: Try HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion See if 'DevicePath' points to
'%SystemRoot%\inf. If it doesn't, then try modifying Device Path by
right clicking on it and in the modify box enter %SystemRoot%. If
there are other items in DevicePath then after the last item add a
semicolon and enter %SystemRoot%
Plug in your device and reboot your machine. If Windows does not
immediately recognize it automatically, go into Device Manager and
check if there is a yellow exclamation mark against "other devices" If
there is then right click on it and click update driver. Hopefully
Windows will then install the driver for the device and you will be in
business.
I hope this works for you. It is very frustrating to have a device
which does not work correctly and no apparent solution is forthcoming.
regards
Bob Howell


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I have finally found the answer to my problem. An on-line tech with
Microsoft advised me to purchase a PCI - USB adapter. I went to Best Buy and
purchased the adapter that has 4 additional USB ports included. It is a card
that has to be installed inside your computer. The Best Buy employee advised
me to get the Geek Squad to install it. It took about 20 minutes for them to
fix it. The adapter cost $38 and the installation was $40. It was worth it
to me to be done with this problem. I got home and tried it out and it
worked great! Give this a try.

"Fluff" wrote:

>
>
> "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!!!!!
 
A Windows on-line tech advised me to purchase a PCI-USB adapter. I went to
Best Buy and purchased the adapter that included 4 additional USB ports.
Their Geek Squad installed the card into my computer and now it works great!!
Thanks for your advice but if you ever have this problem again, this is a
great fix. The card cost $38 and installation was $40. Worth it to me!

"bobhwll" wrote:

>
> Igraepel and John Slattery
> I am no computer boffin but the registry fix I mentioned in my previous
> post worked for me: Try HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
> Windows\CurrentVersion See if 'DevicePath' points to
> '%SystemRoot%\inf. If it doesn't, then try modifying Device Path by
> right clicking on it and in the modify box enter %SystemRoot%. If
> there are other items in DevicePath then after the last item add a
> semicolon and enter %SystemRoot%
> Plug in your device and reboot your machine. If Windows does not
> immediately recognize it automatically, go into Device Manager and
> check if there is a yellow exclamation mark against "other devices" If
> there is then right click on it and click update driver. Hopefully
> Windows will then install the driver for the device and you will be in
> business.
> I hope this works for you. It is very frustrating to have a device
> which does not work correctly and no apparent solution is forthcoming.
> regards
> Bob Howell
>
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