usb external hard drive and digital camera not recognized by windows xp

[Simone Babuin]

Hi,

I have Windows XP SP2 on a Sony Vaio laptop.

When inserting a USB cable into any of the three USB ports, both for a
digital camera and for an external hard drive, after the beeping that
signals the occupation of the port, the devices are not recognized:

-the software of the camera is not triggered, nothing happens
-the external hard drive icon does not appear in My Computer and the
driver is not usable.

The digital camera used to work in the past, I suspect before the
installation of SP2, whilst I only tried the external drive after the
installation of SP2.

I thought the USB ports drivers may need reinstalling, but I could not
find the related software on the microsoft website.

Many thanks to whoever wishes to help.

Simone

 

[Guest]

Hi, I have exactly the same problem, I am not sure I have XP SP2, but it used
to work perfectly and now nothing happens...I am getting crazy....Please
someone help us..

 

[Guest]

Have you used device manager to initialise and format the HDD?

If not it will not be accessible under My Computer!

 

[Quaoar]

Hi,

I have Windows XP SP2 on a Sony Vaio laptop.

When inserting a USB cable into any of the three USB ports, both for a
digital camera and for an external hard drive, after the beeping that
signals the occupation of the port, the devices are not recognized:

-the software of the camera is not triggered, nothing happens
-the external hard drive icon does not appear in My Computer and the
driver is not usable.

The digital camera used to work in the past, I suspect before the
installation of SP2, whilst I only tried the external drive after the
installation of SP2.

I thought the USB ports drivers may need reinstalling, but I could not
find the related software on the microsoft website.

Many thanks to whoever wishes to help.

Simone

Is the digicam mounted as a removeable drive? If so, select Properties,
Autoplay tab and set the startup application there.

....what BAR said about formatting the HD.

Q

 

[Andrew Murray]

is the hardware supported by XP? Have you installed specific
software/driver for the hardware(i.e. the camera?).

 

[tudza]

I have a problem with XP recognizing my USB memory devices as well.

It turns out to be related to my having a mapped network drive. If I
plug a USB device in after startup, it is not listed under the
available drives and I have my network drive.

If I plug in the USB device and reboot, the network drive fails to
connect and the USB device is assigned the name and drive letter of the
network drive.


I can use my devices, but only after a reboot or if I abandon the use
of mapped network drives. I have yet to find a solution for this.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Either map that network drive to another letter or change the letter for the
USB drive....
(I've set my external HD as U: )


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