Re: USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Problem

From: Trent© (no email)
Date: 02/13/04


Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:43:21 -0500

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:12:03 -0800, "Pete Billante"
<pbillante@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi Frank,
>
>Yes, the HDD is spinning up. It does work about 50% of
>the time. And it works 0% of the time if the computer
>goes into standby mode.
>
>I think it may have something to do with a file called
>hpusbfd.sys which is the driver file that the enclosure
>drive points to when I look at the device manager. Its
>odd because its not an HP enclosure or drive. I tried
>renaming this file and restarting, but then none of my
>usb devices were recognized.

Not even those on the PCI card?

My guess is that the wrong drivers are loading
occasionally....sometimes 1.1, sometimes 2.0.

Have a nice week...

Trent

What do you call a smart blonde?
A golden retriever.



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