usb 2.0 device will not start

[Guest]

Hola. i've been working on this for a long time with Western Digital and
they concluded that it is a problem with my laptop card, not the drive.

I am running XP Home SP2 on a Toshiba Satellite. It's about two years old,
and i wanted FireWire and USB 2.0, so i bought a pc card. the FireWire works
with my digital video camera, but, the USB 2.0 ports will not work with
anything. i have a USB 2.0 drive, and it seems to recognize it, but i cannot
access it, and in device manager the drive has an exclamation that "The
device cannot start (Code 10)." Additionally, i cannot use any USB 1.1
drivers.

as you can imagine, it is a pain trying to back up my computer every other
day using usb 1.1. it takes hours. i've googled the problem, contacted
microsoft (it was suggested i use fix 822603 and all related fixes, now
microsoft says that those fixes have been disabled. i have the latest
drivers (from what i can tell). but this card is some no-name brand and i
can't find anything to make it work.

i appreciate your help. i'll owe you big time if you can get it to work

Thanks!

Jake

 

[Quaoar]

Hola. i've been working on this for a long time with Western Digital
and they concluded that it is a problem with my laptop card, not the
drive.

I am running XP Home SP2 on a Toshiba Satellite. It's about two
years old, and i wanted FireWire and USB 2.0, so i bought a pc card.
the FireWire works with my digital video camera, but, the USB 2.0
ports will not work with anything. i have a USB 2.0 drive, and it
seems to recognize it, but i cannot access it, and in device manager
the drive has an exclamation that "The device cannot start (Code
10)." Additionally, i cannot use any USB 1.1 drivers.

as you can imagine, it is a pain trying to back up my computer every
other day using usb 1.1. it takes hours. i've googled the problem,
contacted microsoft (it was suggested i use fix 822603 and all
related fixes, now microsoft says that those fixes have been
disabled. i have the latest drivers (from what i can tell). but
this card is some no-name brand and i can't find anything to make it
work.

i appreciate your help. i'll owe you big time if you can get it to
work

Thanks!

Jake

First, is the drive self-powered? Some notebooks do not supply enough
amperage to run a disk drive. If this USB2 card has the dual
connectors, one for power and one for signal, even that will likely not
be enough power to start the drive.

Otherwise, you might be caught up in the removable drive problem endemic
with XP in which the drive letter will not be reassigned to a new drive.
There are currently a couple of threads on .windowsxp.hardware that
discuss this problem which has, it appears, no easy solution.

Q

 

[Richard Urban]

Defective card??

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

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You'd realize you didn't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tips. the drive is self-powered.

as for the card being defective, the firewire ports work, so for what that's
worth.

thanks again.

Jake

 

[Quaoar]

Thanks for the tips. the drive is self-powered.

as for the card being defective, the firewire ports work, so for what
that's worth.

thanks again.

Jake

My money is on the USB side of the card being defective.

Q