Plugging in a USB device does not show up in My Computer.

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Guest

Recently, when I plug in a USB device it does not show up in My Computer.

I have searched the net and note various flavours to USBs not appearing in
My Computer. I have tried a lot of the recommendations to see if my problem
can be resolved, but alas no joy.

I detail below what my problem is, what I have tried and hope someone can
help to resolve my problem.

If I POWER UP the PC with the USB device plugged in, then it is visible in
My Computer and I can access it.

Once the PC is powered up, and I plug in a USB device, it does not appear in
My Computer.

If I right click My computer, go into Manage followed by Disk Management
then the USB device shows up with an allocated disk drive letter and Healthy.
Whist here unplugging the USB and plugging it back in make the drive
disappear and then reappear.

If I right click My computer, go into Manage followed by Removable Storage
then the USB device shows up with a Red Cross Whist here unplugging the USB
and plugging it back in make the drive disappear and then reappear.

I have also tried to re-install the drivers and even after that the USB does
not show up in My Computer.

I have search my pc for a file called sptd.* and that file does not exist (I
have searched hidden files as well).

When I go into Device manager I do see a yellow ? against Other Device, and
opening that against PCI Simple Communications Controller.

My Pc is running:-

Windows XP Home;
SP2;

Any assistance offered would be appreciated.
 
G

Guest

If you see a yellow exclamation mark, right click on the mark and delete.
Then restart windows and see if it comes back. Note when restarting what
windows is trying to find drivers for.
 
G

Guest

Sorry for the delay in responding, I have just had a few days off.

I have noticed that the “?†was appearing before my problem started (don’t
know why but I had gone to Device Management some time ago and the “?†was
there) and as I am not an expert, in terms of drivers, I don’t want to delete
to then find I cannot use the PC at all.

When I right click and select properties, I get “The drivers for this device
are not installed. (Code 28)â€

Any other ideas that I can try?
 

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