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Hi,
My external usb hard disk, all of a sudden, can not be recognized by my
Windows XP machine. Nothing seems to have changed. The device appears as
unrecognizable in the device manager. I have tried the followings and
still can not fix the problem.
1. power down the computer, removed all usb devices and restart the
computer. Attached the usb hard disk and the problem persist.
2. tried different usb ports and none of them could recognize the drive.
Tried the usb drive on another laptop and it was recognized by the system.
3. followed some online documents and removed all the Vid entries that
was associated with the usb hard disk in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB, restarted the
computer and let the OS to redetected the usb device. Still, no luck
with that.
4. Looked at the hard disk vendor website (Buffalo Tech) and it doesn't
has any driver for the drive. Driver installation is not required.
5. Looked at the motherboard vendor website (Asus) and it appeared that
I have the latest version of the driver installed.
The system is running Windows XP SP2. When I looked at the properties of
the device in the device manager, it said that the driver is not loaded
for the particular device. However, I was unable to update/install the
driver for it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
My external usb hard disk, all of a sudden, can not be recognized by my
Windows XP machine. Nothing seems to have changed. The device appears as
unrecognizable in the device manager. I have tried the followings and
still can not fix the problem.
1. power down the computer, removed all usb devices and restart the
computer. Attached the usb hard disk and the problem persist.
2. tried different usb ports and none of them could recognize the drive.
Tried the usb drive on another laptop and it was recognized by the system.
3. followed some online documents and removed all the Vid entries that
was associated with the usb hard disk in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB, restarted the
computer and let the OS to redetected the usb device. Still, no luck
with that.
4. Looked at the hard disk vendor website (Buffalo Tech) and it doesn't
has any driver for the drive. Driver installation is not required.
5. Looked at the motherboard vendor website (Asus) and it appeared that
I have the latest version of the driver installed.
The system is running Windows XP SP2. When I looked at the properties of
the device in the device manager, it said that the driver is not loaded
for the particular device. However, I was unable to update/install the
driver for it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks