USB Flashdrive

[Charlie]

I just bought a 4 Gig USB flash drive at the computer store. I plugged it in
and Windows recognized it as a new device and that it was a flash drive.
Windows came back and said it couldn't install the device because it
couldn't find the drivers. When I remove the drive and try again I now get a
different USB confirmation sound. Instead of the to confirmation dings I get
a stutter sound and nothing happens. I didn't think you needed drivers for
the flash drives.

I am running XP PRO/SP2. I have a small flash drive that installed and works
fine. I checked my motherboard website for newer USB drivers and there were
none. Any suggestions?

 

[Ghostrider]

I just bought a 4 Gig USB flash drive at the computer store. I plugged it in
and Windows recognized it as a new device and that it was a flash drive.
Windows came back and said it couldn't install the device because it
couldn't find the drivers. When I remove the drive and try again I now get a
different USB confirmation sound. Instead of the to confirmation dings I get
a stutter sound and nothing happens. I didn't think you needed drivers for
the flash drives.

I am running XP PRO/SP2. I have a small flash drive that installed and works
fine. I checked my motherboard website for newer USB drivers and there were
none. Any suggestions?

Checked this particular 4 GB flash drive in another computer? Our recent
experience has indicated that reliability of 4 GB and 8 GB flash drives
are markedly less than 1 GB and 2 GB flash drives. This 4 GB flash drive
may be defective.

 

[Charlie]

I tried this flash drive in another machine running XP Home and it worked
fine. I think it is something with my XP Pro machine. Thanks for the
suggestion.

 

[Elmo]

I just bought a 4 Gig USB flash drive at the computer store. I plugged it in
and Windows recognized it as a new device and that it was a flash drive.
Windows came back and said it couldn't install the device because it
couldn't find the drivers. When I remove the drive and try again I now get a
different USB confirmation sound. Instead of the two confirmation dings, I get
a stutter sound and nothing happens. I didn't think you needed drivers for
the flash drives.

I am running XP PRO/SP2. I have a small flash drive that installed and works
fine. I checked my motherboard website for newer USB drivers and there were
none. Any suggestions?

XP asks for USB drivers:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers

 

[M.I.5¾]

Checked this particular 4 GB flash drive in another computer? Our recent
experience has indicated that reliability of 4 GB and 8 GB flash drives
are markedly less than 1 GB and 2 GB flash drives. This 4 GB flash drive
may be defective.

One thing you should be aware of is that once the 2Gb boundary is passed,
the architecture of FLASH memory changes considerably. It is possible that
there is a compatibility problem, though I would not have expected USB
drives to have been a problem as this should be sorted internally to the
stick, though I am aware that others have had problems with USB ports on
older motherboards (suggesting a chipset incompatibility).