Flash Drive don't work on one computer

[Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com]

I have two flash drives that work on all of my Windows XP computers

except one (and they previously worked for two years on it). I've

uninstalled the USB ports (in Device Manager), rebooted and let WinXP

reinstall these ports but that doesn't help. Anybody else have this

problem?

[Guest Bjarke Andersen]

Re: Flash Drive don't work on one computer

 

jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com crashed Echelon writing news:c26e731b-0351-

4398-b97a-60088e17e6ec@u72g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> I have two flash drives that work on all of my Windows XP computers

> except one (and they previously worked for two years on it). I've

> uninstalled the USB ports (in Device Manager), rebooted and let WinXP

> reinstall these ports but that doesn't help. Anybody else have this

> problem?

 

Yes and no. People cannot answer you when you do not specify the problem.

Sure it is not just a question of mounting your flash drive in Disk

Management

 

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Bjarke Andersen

[Guest 3c273]

Re: Flash Drive don't work on one computer

 

I had a machine once that had a c: drive and a cd-rom d: drive. When I

plugged the usb drive in, it would be assigned drive letter e:. Later, I

added a second hard drive (while the usb drive was unplugged) and assigned

it a drive letter of e:. From that point forward, whenever I inserted the

usb drive, it would show up in the "safely remove hardware" list in the

system tray, but would not get a drive letter. Then only way I ever got it

to work again was to change the second hard drive to f:.

This may or may not apply to you, but it may help someone else who searches

this subject later.

Louis

 

<jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com> wrote in message

news:c26e731b-0351-4398-b97a-60088e17e6ec@u72g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

> I have two flash drives that work on all of my Windows XP computers

> except one (and they previously worked for two years on it). I've

> uninstalled the USB ports (in Device Manager), rebooted and let WinXP

> reinstall these ports but that doesn't help. Anybody else have this

> problem?

[Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com]

Re: Flash Drive don't work on one computer

 

Here's a few more details...

 

- I plug either flash drive into any of our other WinXP computers and

they mount/work correctly

- I plug either flash drive into the computer in question, and it

mounts, is assigned a drive letter (I've tried multiple drive letters)

but doesn't function correctly (takes 15 minutes to access it)

- I've tried the USB ports on the front AND the back of the computer

- I've tried multiple flash drives

- I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the USB drivers (in Device

Manager)

 

 

PS: Sorry for the type in the thread title.

[Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com]

Re: Flash Drive don't work on one computer

 

Here's a few more details...

 

- Both flash drives work in all of our other WinXP computers

- Both flash drives do NOT work in the machine in question

- I've uninstalled/reinstalled the USB drivers (in Device Manager)

- I've tried the front and back USB ports (neither worked)

- I've tried different drive letters for the flash drive

- The flash drives actually mount and are assigned a drive letter on

the machine in question

- I can actually access the flash drives (on the machine in question)

but it physically takes 15 minutes to open it up (it take a second or

two on the other machines)

 

 

 

PS: Sorry about the typo in the thread title.

[Guest jhunter@huntercomputerinc.com]

Re: Flash Drive don't work on one computer

 

Anybody else have this problem?