Thank you John,
All Drivers were installed by MSI Live Update and there is no specific USB
Driver as such from MSI. I believe that XP SP1+ contains all the USB Drivers
required for any system.
A couple mor points I have noticed relating to this issue that may be of
interest.
1) When I plugin USB Stick Autoplay Screen appears. One of the items on this
screen is "Open USB using the program provided on the device. I wonder what
program this would be. If I select this action, it provides the same problem
as when clicking on Removable Drive (E

in My Computer I.E. E:\Access is
Denied. Should there be some particular program on the Stick that would allow
it to open. This has never been required when using Stick on other machines.
2) When I Click the Task Bar Icon "Safely Remove Hardware" a Popup appears
listing "Safely Remove USB Mass Storage Device (E

" and "Safely Remove
ST3160815AS (C

" which happens to be my Main System Drive. I have never seen
this before on any machine.
I am wondering if this problem is caused by MSI Driver error.
Thank You
Owen C
"John Wunderlich" wrote:
> =?Utf-8?B?b2NhcjIz?= <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>
> > Thanks for responses.
> > This is a tricky one. Further thought is required.
> > Since I posted, I have reformatted and reinstalled XP Home SP2 to
> > retest the installation. So with only the barebones operating
> > system, the problem is still there.
> > Left Click on E:\Removable Disk in My Computer to Open causes
> > Error Dialog "E:\Access is Denied". Right Click on E:\Removable
> > Drive, select Explore, Disk functions normal and opens to show
> > Folders. Unplug Stick and Replug brings up Autoplay Screen for
> > choice of Actions. As I said before, this Stick works correctly on
> > opther machines and has done for years.
> > Thank you.
> >
>
> The most likely candidate is a driver problem for your USB chipset. A
> new computer uses newer components that may not be well supported in a
> [older] Windows XP Install disk. Find out what chipset your computer
> uses and go to the manufacturer's website and look for an updated
> driver. You might also go to your PC Manufacturer's website -- they
> sometimes post driver updates as well.
>
> HTH,
> John
>