Windows xp does not recognize flash drive

Noe —. I am hesitant about installing a 98SE driver on XP. Now that I see that, I believe the disk I got with it said the same thing. I have been interested in this discussion as well since I have what seems to be a similar problem with my Toshiba laptop and a thumb drive. The thumb drive works on any other computer.

It works on one of the three USB ports on my Toshiba but not on the other two. On the two ports which do not accept the drive, I receive a message about hardware not being recognized. Obviously an appropriate driver is present because it does work on one port. All three USB ports accept other hardware but are finicky about what they accept. None of the suggestions that has shown up so far in this discussion has provided a working solution.

One other piece of information: When the machine was new, the drive worked in ports through which it is not now recognized. OK try using a different USB port. It has been my experience that XP wants to use D: for flash drive. Open up My Computer and see what your cdromdvd letter is. If it is D: you will have to change it to E:. You can change the letter using Disk Management in the Computer Management tool. Then plug in only your flash drive to see what happens.

If you can, get a friends flash drive, and test your PC with it as well. I have several different types of SanDisk flash drives that always get recognized knock on wood! It seems that everyone has given up. I have a similiar problem.

The same USB port reads other flash drives and and my other computers read the flash drive. I followd all of the podts here and have not been able to fix the problem. When the Software is installed a new reg entry is made but XP reads the First reg entry.

I have had a few over the years. Deleting all reference to the 1 bad device has alwasy cleared up the problem. However, now i cant get my computer to recognize plug and play anything I connect via usb, ie camera, video camera etc. I cant even get it to show up on Disk Management. The computer pops up a wizard asking me to update the driver — but there is no driver available.

Do you have any further thoughts on this? Thank you for the information. Thankfully, I have had the computer repaired. I will keep this letter on file in case of future need. I am guessing now okey, but maybe the flash drive is accessible now if the driver for iyt was corrupted or something ….

I still tried to goto control panel, management, change device letter, but it does not appear on list.. Did you test it in another PC? Unplug the device, wait 10 secs and then plug it back in again to see if it recognizes it. From: wiangube via windows-xp-home-l [mailto:windows-xp-home-l Groups. I have had experiences where the flash drive is trying to take a drive letter that has already been assigned. Thanks for your help.

John Blackley. Hello Photuguy: Just one question. Is your PC connected to a network? If this is your case you will have to tate into accoun the following rule: By default Windows XP assigns Drive Letters to physical units actually physically connected to your PC like your pendrive; therefore in the above exampleWindows tries to assign the letter E to your pendrive but it has already been assigned t a network drive.

Sometimes your pendrive is not shown dueto this situation. As Windows XP assigns Drive Letters to Network Drives beginning from the letter Z backwards you should follow this practice in yor network -if this is your case- in order to avoid this situation in the future. Is it does, I am confident that the previous two steps will give you peace of mind. Good Luck!!! Juan Franco Scapcen JuanFranco1 yahoo.

Drive letters have nothing to do with the Power Circuit Try the flash drives in any other computer. If you do not have one go to a pace like Best Buy that has demo computer running all the time and plug the Drives in 1 of them. Thank you for your reply. My laptop is connect to my home wireless network with a D-link USB port link, which works fine.

I have tried it both ways, with my laptop not connected with the wireless home network, and with my laptop connected. Maybe these 2 flash drives are just fried? Thanks again. And as a matter of fact, drive letters are assigned by Windows XP as explained in my post. Best regards. One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message.

I tried your suggestion to go to Control Panel. I hope you will email the reply. Can you help? Carl Trautmann, St. I reinstalled XP Home Edition with service pac 3. What do I do so Home edition will recognize it. Microsoft says,. Hi Carl What are they formatted? Macs will usually read Fat file systems. Double click on the device and check if any error message or error code is listed. Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.

Right-click every device under the Universal Serial Bus controllers node, and then click Uninstall to remove them one at a time. Plug in the removable USB storage device, and then test to make sure that the issue is resolved. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Original title: flash drives I have win-xp on a dell platform its 2.

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Other computers accept the flash drive just fine. The usb port functions fine with camera cables, scanner cables etc.