not able to plug & play jump drives/ USBs

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Recently upgraded to Windows XP from 98, primarily so I could open files from
other people's jump drives/USBs without having to download drivers. My
system recognizes my own jump drive, but the two others I've tried it does
not see. I get messages something to the effect of 'do you want to look on
the CD', so I put my Windows XP CD in, but it never finds it. And, of
course, now I'm running XP not 98 so even if I wanted to go through the
time/trouble to go to the internet and download, they don't have drivers for
XP...they all state that XP automatically will run them. I'm not a tech
savvy person, so this frustrates the heck out of me. Any ideas??
 
Joyce said:
Recently upgraded to Windows XP from 98, primarily so I could open files from
other people's jump drives/USBs without having to download drivers. My
system recognizes my own jump drive, but the two others I've tried it does
not see. I get messages something to the effect of 'do you want to look on
the CD', so I put my Windows XP CD in, but it never finds it. And, of
course, now I'm running XP not 98 so even if I wanted to go through the
time/trouble to go to the internet and download, they don't have drivers for
XP...they all state that XP automatically will run them. I'm not a tech
savvy person, so this frustrates the heck out of me. Any ideas??
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Maybe this:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers



Uwe
 
I deleted the iecache or whatever that file name was, but did not affect
anything. At my borther in laws suggestion, also went into Control
Panel-System-Hardware-Device Manager-USB Controllers and updated the Host
drivers. Did the update, but still won't 'read' USB drives. My computer
opens my personal USB drive just fine; but if I put in someone else's (most
frequently SanDisk mini cruzer), I get the message of 'found new hardware'
etc, I'll let the system go out and try to find a driver, but it never does;
when it asks if we want to insert CD, I insert my Windows XP Pro Edition SP2
CD and it searches there, but never finds it there either. I've done all
available Windows updates. This is really getting annoying. At least when I
had Win 98 I could go to the drive's web site and download drivers for Win
98SE.
 
Joyce,
are you on a network? is there other drives using "F:\" as there path? if
so that could be the problem. I had to change drive letters to use my usb
storage devices.
 
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