USB thumbdrives want to load a driver now...

[Guest coastergeez]

Strange problem started...whenever I want to use a USB thumbdrive or

my USB external harddrive, Windows says found new hardware then the

Found New Hardware Wizard appears. I have tried letting it search for

the driver and also tried picking some from \system32\drivers as well

as the i386 directory. I reloaded my updated for SP2 as well the

hotfix for Windows XP 226205 to no avail. My USB mouse still works,

seems to be anything drive related.

 

Anyone know whats going on here and how do I get the drivers back? I

even removed all the USB related items in device manager, redetected

and it loaded everything back but my USB drives still dont work.

 

TIA

[Guest Uwe Sieber]

Re: USB thumbdrives want to load a driver now...

 

coastergeez wrote:

> Strange problem started...whenever I want to use a USB thumbdrive or

> my USB external harddrive, Windows says found new hardware then the

> Found New Hardware Wizard appears. I have tried letting it search for

> the driver and also tried picking some from \system32\drivers as well

> as the i386 directory. I reloaded my updated for SP2 as well the

> hotfix for Windows XP 226205 to no avail. My USB mouse still works,

> seems to be anything drive related.

>

> Anyone know whats going on here and how do I get the drivers back? I

> even removed all the USB related items in device manager, redetected

> and it loaded everything back but my USB drives still dont work.

 

 

Sounds like this issue:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers

 

 

Uwe

[Guest coastergeez]

Re: USB thumbdrives want to load a driver now...

 

On Jul 9, 2:06 am, Uwe Sieber <m...@uwe-sieber.de> wrote:

> coastergeez wrote:

> > Strange problem started...whenever I want to use a USB thumbdrive or

> > my USB external harddrive, Windows says found new hardware then the

> > Found New Hardware Wizard appears. I have tried letting it search for

> > the driver and also tried picking some from \system32\drivers as well

> > as the i386 directory. I reloaded my updated for SP2 as well the

> > hotfix for Windows XP 226205 to no avail. My USB mouse still works,

> > seems to be anything drive related.

>

> > Anyone know whats going on here and how do I get the drivers back? I

> > even removed all the USB related items in device manager, redetected

> > and it loaded everything back but my USB drives still dont work.

>

> Sounds like this issue:http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers

>

> Uwe

 

Thanks! I ended up repairing the INF folder by just copying it from

another XP machine. All works now! whew.