USB removable drives not showing up in Windows Explorer and high virtual memory usage

[teledyne]

This is a 2 question topic... both of these things happened after I
repaired my OS through my Windows XP SP2 CD.

One, whenever I plug in my USB removable drives, or even my iPod, it
doesn't show up in Windows Explorer. Even when I go to Disk Management
and assign it a drive letter, it still won't show up for a good 10
minutes or so, and when it does, it shows up as a hard disk. When I
assign my iPod a drive letter, iTunes is able to detect it and I can
transfer music. When the USB drive is assigned a drive letter, I can
access it, but only through the Command Console or if I am saving
something to it through a program, but never through Windows Explorer.
Is some service not working? It didn't used to be this way before.

Another thing, my virtual memory usage is extremely high. Right now
iTunes is using 38MB of RAM, but 575MB of Virtual Memory. Even my
PerfectDisk scheduler is running on 52MB of VM.

Would this constitute another attempt at the repair?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

This is a 2 question topic... both of these things happened after I
repaired my OS through my Windows XP SP2 CD.

One, whenever I plug in my USB removable drives, or even my iPod, it
doesn't show up in Windows Explorer. Even when I go to Disk Management
and assign it a drive letter, it still won't show up for a good 10
minutes or so, and when it does, it shows up as a hard disk. When I
assign my iPod a drive letter, iTunes is able to detect it and I can
transfer music. When the USB drive is assigned a drive letter, I can
access it, but only through the Command Console or if I am saving
something to it through a program, but never through Windows Explorer.
Is some service not working? It didn't used to be this way before.

Maybe one of these problems and solutions fits to yours:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html


Uwe