USB memory stick conflict
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From: me here on 4 May 2010 07:01 Sandgroper wrote: > > "me here" <gloaming_agnet(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:4bdff283$1(a)dnews.tpgi.com.au... > > > > OK here's an odd one - tell me what's going on here - XP Pro system. > > > > I have a 1 TB seagate USB drive - NTFS. > > > > I also have a 512 MB Lexar (OfficeWorks) thumb drive - FAT32. > > > > And a 4 GB Memorex Mini TD thumb drive - Fat32. > > > > The Seagate and the Lexar can both be plugged into the USB on the PC > > (any port) and no problem, both are recognised. > > > > The Seagate and the Memorex can't coexist, as only the first one > > plugged in will be recoognised. > > > > In fact if the Memorex is plugged in first, the Seagate will spin up > > and then shut down. > > > > It is PC specific, because if I try the same trick on another XP > > Pro PC there's no problem. > > > > So there must be some setting in the first PC that is out of whack. > > All drivers are latest for the board (Gigabyte). > > > > Any ideas, and why just the Memorex ? > > > > > > Have you tried to re-format the Memorex thumb drive ? Yes tried both Fat and NTFS. No difference.
From: Fred on 4 May 2010 08:24 The USB Fixit is this one. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196/en-au Rob wrote: > On 4/05/2010 7:10 PM, me here wrote: >> >> OK here's an odd one - tell me what's going on here - XP Pro system. >> >> I have a 1 TB seagate USB drive - NTFS. >> >> I also have a 512 MB Lexar (OfficeWorks) thumb drive - FAT32. >> >> And a 4 GB Memorex Mini TD thumb drive - Fat32. >> >> The Seagate and the Lexar can both be plugged into the USB on the PC >> (any port) and no problem, both are recognised. >> >> The Seagate and the Memorex can't coexist, as only the first one >> plugged in will be recoognised. >> >> In fact if the Memorex is plugged in first, the Seagate will spin up >> and then shut down. >> >> It is PC specific, because if I try the same trick on another XP Pro >> PC there's no problem. >> >> So there must be some setting in the first PC that is out of whack. >> All drivers are latest for the board (Gigabyte). >> >> Any ideas, and why just the Memorex ? >> >> > > There is a quick fix on the MS site see if I can find it. > > Nup but try this first > > http://support.microsoft.com/gp/hardware_device_problems > > but I think it was one of the below. > > http://support.microsoft.com/fixit?fi=50027 > > http://support.microsoft.com/fixit?fi=50026
From: me here on 4 May 2010 07:41
Fred wrote: > The USB Fixit is this one. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196/en-au > > Rob wrote: > > On 4/05/2010 7:10 PM, me here wrote: > > > > >> OK here's an odd one - tell me what's going on here - XP Pro > system. > > > > >> I have a 1 TB seagate USB drive - NTFS. > > > > >> I also have a 512 MB Lexar (OfficeWorks) thumb drive - FAT32. > > > > >> And a 4 GB Memorex Mini TD thumb drive - Fat32. > > > > >> The Seagate and the Lexar can both be plugged into the USB on the > PC >> (any port) and no problem, both are recognised. > > > > >> The Seagate and the Memorex can't coexist, as only the first one > >> plugged in will be recoognised. > > > > >> In fact if the Memorex is plugged in first, the Seagate will spin > up >> and then shut down. > > > > >> It is PC specific, because if I try the same trick on another XP > Pro >> PC there's no problem. > > > > >> So there must be some setting in the first PC that is out of whack. > >> All drivers are latest for the board (Gigabyte). > > > > >> Any ideas, and why just the Memorex ? > > > > > > > > > > There is a quick fix on the MS site see if I can find it. > > > > Nup but try this first > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/gp/hardware_device_problems > > > > but I think it was one of the below. > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/fixit?fi=50027 > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/fixit?fi=50026 Fred, that's typical MS :-) It talks about fixing the USB problem, and then when you run it , the app goes off on a tangent and fixes yout CD/DVD. You've gotta laugh...oh well. It's getting a bit late so I might try a registry hack tomorrow. Thanks for all the input guys, see how it goes after a bit of a nap. To be continued........ |