My USB device worked but now it won't

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Kelvin Beaton

I have been using a USB thumb drive.
I had it plugged into one port, when it didn't work any more in that port I
used a different one, when that didn't work any more I used another one. But
now I'm our of ports.

How can I remove the drivers for the drive so it can reinstall them?

Is there something else going on that I need to fix some other way?

Windows XP Pro
current on updates

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Kelvin
 
Kelvin said:
I have been using a USB thumb drive.
I had it plugged into one port, when it didn't work any more in that port I
used a different one, when that didn't work any more I used another one. But
now I'm our of ports.

How can I remove the drivers for the drive so it can reinstall them?
Click to expand...

Get MS devcon:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

Get my ListUsbDrives:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip

You need the drive's hardware ID like this one:
USB\VID_067B&PID_2517\7&10B19086&0&1

Attach the drive to another computer, start the
ListUsbDrives_To_Notepad.cmd included in the
listusbdrives.zip.
Find your drive, copy the 'Ctrl DevID' (looks
like the sample above).

On your computer you can remove then all instances
by a single call like this:

devcon remove USB\VID_058F^&PID_6369*

The '^' before the '&' is required because the '&' has
a special meaning for the command interpreter CMD.

Or just
devcon remove USB\VID_058F*

It removes all USB devices with the same vendor ID as
your drive. Unlikeley that there is another devices
affected...


Uwe
 
I have been using a USB thumb drive.
I had it plugged into one port, when it didn't work any more in that port I
used a different one, when that didn't work any more I used another one. But
now I'm our of ports.

How can I remove the drivers for the drive so it can reinstall them?

Is there something else going on that I need to fix some other way?

Windows XP Pro
current on updates

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Kelvin
Click to expand...

Go into device manager and do the following:

Find the "Universal Serial bus controllers" and expand the list.
Find each occurance of "USB Root Hub"
Right click each one and select properties
click on "Power Management" tab
uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"


Good Luck,

Trev
 
One more bit.....

If your using a USB hub...try disconnecting it as well....I've seen
some of these devices cause this problem that you are describing.


Good Luck,

Trev
 
Hi Kevin,

Well what drivers do you want to re-install.. IS it the USB Port Driver or
the Thumb drive... Have you tried the Thumb Drive on some other machine,, do
try it to determine if its not damaged..

To remove and reinstall the driver.. Right click on My Computer and choose
properties then goto Hardware Tab and choose device manager..

Choose USB Controllers and select options below and unistall them.. then
again windows would automatically reinstall.. The same applies for thumb
drive which is identified as USB Mass storage so just unistall and
reinstall.. Hope this helps

Regards
Ahmad
Microsoft Student Partner - India
 
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