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I have a hp notebook. xp windows home. amd and 512 memory. About 11/2
years old. Pavilion ze2000.
Anyway I have a 256 thumb drive by memorex and a 1gb by kingston that
have been working for the past
year. I had a problem with the computer and had to reformat the hard
drive partition c. I also have a partition d for my files.
I started installing all my programs. I put both thumb drives in the
usb slot and they were readable. I installed some other software and
went to try to read the thumb drives and it said the drive F was
inaccessible. I fiqured it was one of the software having conflict so I
deleted the software. When I put the thumb drives in any usb port, it
said again that Drive F was inaccessible. These thumb drives work on
about three other computers except this hp laptop now, afteer a year of
not having any problems. I can't even format them on this laptop
because it says I don't have enough rights. I'm the administrator. I
can't even open them with command prompt, because it won't change the
directory from c, or I don't know how to do it.
Also, I've did this twice: I did a repair of the C drive.,
installed some programs, put the thumb drives in a usb port and they
were readable. Then after surfing the internet, I can't say how long,
maybe two hours, I put the thumb drive back in, and it said that the
Drive F was inaccessible again. THIS HAPPENED TWICE ALREADY. After I
format drive C, the thumb drives are readable and then after an hour or
so it says they are inaccessible.
Can anyone help????? For what it matters, the drive shows up in
device manager as Kingston 1gb and memorex, but it is still
unaccessible. Under disk management, Just the C,D, and cd rom show up.
There are no yellow question marks anywhere. And under usb ports, it
does show enhanced on one of the ports. Can someone fix this and tell
me what's going on??
 
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Elmo

I have a hp notebook. xp windows home. amd and 512 memory. About 11/2
years old. Pavilion ze2000.
Anyway I have a 256 thumb drive by memorex and a 1gb by kingston that
have been working for the past
year. I had a problem with the computer and had to reformat the hard
drive partition c. I also have a partition d for my files.
I started installing all my programs. I put both thumb drives in the
usb slot and they were readable. I installed some other software and
went to try to read the thumb drives and it said the drive F was
inaccessible. I fiqured it was one of the software having conflict so I
deleted the software. When I put the thumb drives in any usb port, it
said again that Drive F was inaccessible. These thumb drives work on
about three other computers except this hp laptop now, afteer a year of
not having any problems. I can't even format them on this laptop
because it says I don't have enough rights. I'm the administrator. I
can't even open them with command prompt, because it won't change the
directory from c, or I don't know how to do it.
Also, I've did this twice: I did a repair of the C drive.,
installed some programs, put the thumb drives in a usb port and they
were readable. Then after surfing the internet, I can't say how long,
maybe two hours, I put the thumb drive back in, and it said that the
Drive F was inaccessible again. THIS HAPPENED TWICE ALREADY. After I
format drive C, the thumb drives are readable and then after an hour or
so it says they are inaccessible.
Can anyone help????? For what it matters, the drive shows up in
device manager as Kingston 1gb and memorex, but it is still
unaccessible. Under disk management, Just the C,D, and cd rom show up.
There are no yellow question marks anywhere. And under usb ports, it
does show enhanced on one of the ports. Can someone fix this and tell
me what's going on??

USB Help sites:
http://www.usbman.com/WinME USB Guide.htm

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575

Troubleshooting for USB drives
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html
 

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