Trouble with USB connections

[Guest Walter R.]

Running Win XP SP2. Normally, when I connect a USB device, Windows goes

ding-dong and connects. Was working fine for my USB connection to my

external SATA drive, which I use as a backup drive. I use an internal SATA

drive as the boot drive. No problems.

 

Since yesterday, it just sits there without making any connective noises and

without recognizing the drive.

 

I do not see this drive in the Bios, or in Windows Explorer. Device Manager

shows no problems.

 

The external SATA drive is formatted in NTFS, all other drives are formatted

in Fat 32. Could this be a factor?

 

There must be something wrong with my USB system/connection. Any suggestions

would be appreciated.

 

 

--

Walter

http://www.rationality.net

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[Guest Patrick Keenan]

Re: Trouble with USB connections

 

"Walter R." <wer25@example.com> wrote in message

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> Running Win XP SP2. Normally, when I connect a USB device, Windows goes

> ding-dong and connects. Was working fine for my USB connection to my

> external SATA drive, which I use as a backup drive. I use an internal SATA

> drive as the boot drive. No problems.

>

> Since yesterday, it just sits there without making any connective noises

> and without recognizing the drive.

>

> I do not see this drive in the Bios, or in Windows Explorer. Device

> Manager shows no problems.

>

> The external SATA drive is formatted in NTFS, all other drives are

> formatted in Fat 32. Could this be a factor?

>

> There must be something wrong with my USB system/connection. Any

> suggestions would be appreciated.

>

>

> --

> Walter

> http://www.rationality.net

> -

 

The problem isn't likely to have any relationship to the disk format if

Windows is not recognising the connection of the drive. At that point,

Windows, or your PC, is looking for the USB circuitry, not at the disk drive

at all.

 

Does the drive work if attached to other systems? If it does, the USB port

on your system may have failed, or been overloaded. In the worst case,

you might have to replace the ports via a PCI to USB2 card. These are

around $20 and are trivial to install.

 

HTH

-pk

[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: Trouble with USB connections

 

Connecting devices like that is called "hot-plugging",unless youre pc is

designed for that the results could/will be destructive to the hardware & the

software...As for the problem(s),go to the pc hardware home page "intel,amd,

etc" downloads,chipset,software,locate the chipset installation utility for

youre

boards chip set.This utility gives windows instructions on chip-set

files,which

include USB controller.

 

"Walter R." wrote:

> Running Win XP SP2. Normally, when I connect a USB device, Windows goes

> ding-dong and connects. Was working fine for my USB connection to my

> external SATA drive, which I use as a backup drive. I use an internal SATA

> drive as the boot drive. No problems.

>

> Since yesterday, it just sits there without making any connective noises and

> without recognizing the drive.

>

> I do not see this drive in the Bios, or in Windows Explorer. Device Manager

> shows no problems.

>

> The external SATA drive is formatted in NTFS, all other drives are formatted

> in Fat 32. Could this be a factor?

>

> There must be something wrong with my USB system/connection. Any suggestions

> would be appreciated.

>

>

> --

> Walter

> http://www.rationality.net

> -

>

>

>

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: Trouble with USB connections

 

 

"Andrew E." <eckrichco@msn.com> wrote in message

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> Connecting devices like that is called "hot-plugging",unless youre pc is

> designed for that the results could/will be destructive to the hardware &

> the

> software...As for the problem(s),go to the pc hardware home page

> "intel,amd,

> etc" downloads,chipset,software,locate the chipset installation utility

> for

> youre

 

Not at all. The USB plugs and sockets are specifically designed to be hot

plugged without damage. The software also specifically supports this

functionality.

[Guest smlunatick]

Re: Trouble with USB connections

 

On Aug 5, 3:18 am, "Walter R." <we...@example.com> wrote:

> Running Win XP SP2. Normally, when I connect a USB device, Windows goes

> ding-dong and connects. Was working fine for my USB connection to my

> external SATA drive, which I use as a backup drive. I use an internal SATA

> drive as the boot drive. No problems.

>

> Since yesterday, it just sits there without making any connective noises and

> without recognizing the drive.

>

> I do not see this drive in the Bios, or in Windows Explorer. Device Manager

> shows no problems.

>

> The external SATA drive is formatted in NTFS, all other drives are formatted

> in Fat 32. Could this be a factor?

>

> There must be something wrong with my USB system/connection. Any suggestions

> would be appreciated.

>

> --

> Walterwww.rationality.net

> -

 

Does it show up in Disk Management?

 

Is the external drive connected at start-up?

 

You may need to reset the USB device in Device Manager. I have seen

XP mix up device drivers and a working device can show up as an

"unknown" device or a "ghost" device.