External Drive and Formatting

[Guest]

Windows vista recognizes my external drives (flash drives, sd cards) but will
not let me open them, it tells me that my usb device is working properly but
it wants to format everything I plug into this computer i.e.usb flash drives,
sd cards, external hard drives, cameras, everything. I let it format the
device and it says it cannot format then kicks me out.

Also I take the same device to another computer and everything works fine.

I have tried the driver update process thet I found here and that did not
work.

Thanks for any help, it is driving me crazy.

 

[Guest]

Which driver update proces are you referring to? Basically, if the driver
updates for your motherboard/chipset and your USB ports aren't corrupted -
and if your USB devices aren't malfunctioning - then I'd have to suspect a
problem with your motherboard.

Are you able to obtain a plug in PCI card with USB ports to help determine
where the issue lies?

- John

 

[John Barnes]

and update your BIOS

Which driver update proces are you referring to? Basically, if the driver
updates for your motherboard/chipset and your USB ports aren't corrupted -
and if your USB devices aren't malfunctioning - then I'd have to suspect a
problem with your motherboard.

Are you able to obtain a plug in PCI card with USB ports to help determine
where the issue lies?

- John

 

[Guest]

Thank you, updating the BIOS or actually starting over worked, I have no more
problems with the computer or externall devices.

Thank you again Randy

 

[Witek]

I still have the same problem as Randy.
I updated all motherboards drivers, with newest avaiable on manufacture
support centers. And no effect. Still when plug any flash card to card
reader, or connect via USB sony PSP, Windows detects new device, asigns a
drive letter, and always demands formatting the drive to be able use it.
I can finish formatting flash cards only in NTFS mode. When I choose FAT32
or FAT, the process of formatting starts, but after few seconds ends with
error message: "Windows can't end the formatting process".
But when I try to use MemoryStick formated by PC in NTFS mode, the Sony PSP
says, that can not use MemoryStick and I have to formatt the flash card with
option included in console menu.
On my second computer with XP installed, everything works fine!

My config:
Motherboard: Gigabyte P-35 DS3 rev 1.0 with F10 Bios (newest avaiable)
PIV - Core 2 Dou 2,66GHz
RAM - 4x1GB Geil DDR 2 800MHz
I use polish version of Windows Vista Premium 32bit

Pls help if you have any ideas how to solve this problem

Best regards!