USB hard disk seen as "USB HDTV device"

[j]

Hi,

I have had a USB2 hard disk (with video files on it) for a long time now, no
problems. Today I unplugged it (by using "Safely remove hardware", of
course) and plugged it back after a while. When I plugged it back, my
Windows XP professional AUTOMATICALLY (you gotta love this OS...) recognised
it as "USB HDTV device" and, naturally, couldn't find any working drivers
for it.

Whatever I did (uninstalling and "detect hardware changes"; or
uninstalling, rebooting and and then detecting changes; or trying to locate
it from disk management; or trying to manually install drivers), I had no
luck getting it to work or WinXP recognising it as a USB HDD.

So how can I get it to work again? Any help or ideas are appreciated.

 

[Jon Erlandson]

Without knowing the make and model of the drive for specific issues my guess
is to download the latest drivers from the manufacturers site and follow
instructions for installation or manually update driver from "safely remove
hardware."

 

[j]

Without knowing the make and model of the drive for specific issues my
guess is to download the latest drivers from the manufacturers site and
follow instructions for installation or manually update driver from
"safely remove hardware."

Thanks for the answer. The drive (or rather, the USB drive BOX where I can
place any IDE drive) **has** no drivers for WinXP as it does not need any,
since WinXP knows - or rather is supposed to know - how to handle USB mass
memory devices.

This "USB HDTV device" is some new wonderful feature of WinXP, most likely
from a relatively new Windows update (I tend to install all updates). So
maybe I should try to uninstall the update...? I wonder which one? Windows
Media Connect, perhaps?

- j

 

[DProthro]

I have the same issue with another device (a spectrum analyzer tha
connects through USB2). I can't imagine that the signal that get
passed over USB even resembles a video file, but who knows.

I have the manufacturers of the device working on this issue, s
hopefully we'll get an answer soon.

-Derek