USB Flash drives and WinXP

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Shmuckety

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Why does Windows not recognize certain devices all the time? I just bought a flash drive and my main rig does not recognize it. The 3 other WinXp computers I tested it on had no issues. Where in the registry does winXP keep track of this? I know there is a file somewhere that says this flash drive was not recognized, so I will not try to recognize it again from now on.

Help.

Thanks.
 
Are you sure? Check in the disk manager to see if there is a driver letter conflict.
 
I'm having the same problem here also..My MP3 player works but my USB drive doesn't work.. I Goggled and you may want to try these.
Try unplugging the computer for 15-30 minutes.
Daemon tool messes things up too, delete these files from your system32 folder. sptd, secdrv


btw: i'm using Windows XP SP2
 
I use other usb drives on the same port with no issues. It detected it the first time, but did not work again after that. It is definitely a WinXP problem. I have seen this happen before. It is very strange. I have Win XP SP2 also.

One computer will be ok with a device and the other not. I don't have daemon tools, but Alcohol 120 also creates its own drive. I will try your suggestions.
 
Yeah, but you still have not asked my question. Does the drive show up in Disk Management?
 
k1pp3r said:
Yeah, but you still have not asked my question. Does the drive show up in Disk Management?
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The drive should show up in disk management. Just plugged 2 of my flash drives in and they showed up in Disk Management.
 
amdfan25 said:
The drive should show up in disk management. Just plugged 2 of my flash drives in and they showed up in Disk Management.
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Ok, change the drive letter so it does not conflict with anything. You should then be able to access the drive.
 
k1pp3r said:
Yeah, but you still have not asked my question. Does the drive show up in Disk Management?
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Sorry, no it doesn't show up in disk management. Since windows on that computer does not recognize this device it does not classify it as a drive. It shows up in device manager as an unknown usb device.
 
I have one and that is what I am attaching to, but there is no problem with the hardware. It reads other devices fine it just has a problem with this particular one only on this pc. Very strange.
 
well, I disabled USB 2.0 in my BIO and left 1.0 on..and it worked for one of my USB drive..you might want to give that a try.
 
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