USB Flash Drive is not recognized. Must restart system to make it

[Guest]

My Sony Microvault 1.0 GB. flash drive is not found in my Windows XP
Professional system. I have to reboot the system, then it will find it. And
after I safely remove it and plug it back in, it's not recognized again. In
Device Manager, it said 'Unknown Device' when it's not recognized. Could you
please help? I've checked with Sony for a driver, but it seems I have the
current one already. Please help.

Thanks a million!!

 

[Art®]

I can't speak for the Sony Microvault, but I have a SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB
drive, and with WinXP you do not have to anything other than pull the USB
drive out of the socket when you are ready to go. Removing it safely, in XP
removes the driver, which you can only get back again with a reboot.

With Win2000 you do need to do the safe removal or you get an error message
and run the risk of files not being closed properly on the USB drive.

Art

 

[Rock]

My Sony Microvault 1.0 GB. flash drive is not found in my Windows XP
Professional system. I have to reboot the system, then it will find it. And
after I safely remove it and plug it back in, it's not recognized again. In
Device Manager, it said 'Unknown Device' when it's not recognized. Could you
please help? I've checked with Sony for a driver, but it seems I have the
current one already. Please help.

Thanks a million!!

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310575