Unable to detect USB drive

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ambientscape · #1 Post by **ambientscape** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:05 am

When I plugged in my USB drive into my thinkpad, the icon of my USB drive is not seen in My Computer. Somehow, the USB drive is detected in the USB port.....what's the matter with it?

Thanks

Toe · #2 Post by **Toe** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:12 pm

1.)What type of drive?

2.)Have you connected it before?

-Toe

storage_man · #3 Post by **storage_man** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:29 pm

You may want to try the following procedure. Hopefully this should correct your problem.

Unplug ALL USB devices.
Open Device Manager.
View, Show Hidden Devices.
Uninstall all devices under USB Controllers.
Uninstall all devices under Storage Volumes. Say no to any reboot prompts until you are finished. Also, if a Storage Volume doesn't uninstall, ignore it and move to the next one.
If you have a yellow ? with unknown devices, uninstall all of the entries there as well.

When this is done, reboot TWICE.

Reconnect the USB devices and see if they're recognized properly.

Storage_man

ambientscape · #4 Post by **ambientscape** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:44 pm

Whaohhh! It works.....!! Is this cause by some bugs??

JHEM · #5 Post by **JHEM** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:40 am

ambientscape wrote:Whaohhh! It works.....!! Is this cause by some bugs??

It's a flaw in XP, although MS would characterize it as a feature!

Regards,

James

jarbill · #6 Post by **jarbill** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:14 pm

I'm trying to figure out how to make a USB-ps2 adapter work with my keyboard. It shows the ps2 keyboard with the USB adapter as an unknown device in the device manager and says that it didn't install correctly or that Windows doesn't recognize the USB device.

Regarding your suggestion of uninstalling everything under USB serial bus controller and rebooting twice, what happens when you uninstall everything? Will they reinstall hopefully showing the new device when you reboot or if not, how do you get the host controllers and root hubs back?

Hope this isn't too dumb of a question. I just don't want to uninstall all the USB stuff and then not be able to get them back again.

Kind regards,

Jerry

storage_man · #7 Post by **storage_man** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:10 pm

Jarbill

Thats why you re-boot twice. The first time is so that windows finds all of the internal controllers and hubs. After the second re-boot, you start attaching your external USB devices. One at a time. IE hubs first (if you have them) followed by individual devices.

Storage_man

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