Re: USB Mass Storage Problems

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From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:16:06 -0700

That is really odd. You should have shell hardware and plug and play
services enabled, but they are on by default and you probably haven't
been playing around in there. Does this device work on other computers? 

----
Nathan McNulty
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> With this I get a little further in that the device is 
> now recognized as a USB Mass Storage Device instead of an 
> Unknown Device. However the device still shows in the 
> MSINFO32 as a problematic device with the message "this 
> device cann not start".
> 
> I tried updating the usbstor.sys file however nothing 
> improved. 
> 
> Any other clues
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Try this:
>>
>>Click Start-Run-Type regedit and click OK. Now expand to 
>>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB
>>
>>Find and delete the folder starting with Vid_Xxxx that 
> 
> contains the 
> 
>>problematic flash drive.  Make sure the drive is 
> 
> disconnected when you 
> 
>>delete this key.  Reboot after you have deleted it and 
> 
> then plug it in. 
> 
>> It should work after that ;)
>>
>>----
>>Nathan McNulty
>>
>>
>>Rob wrote:
>>
>>>USB Flash disk will not work on my PC (ot works on 
> 
> other 
> 
>>>PC's). When I plug in the USB flash disk, the device 
>>>appears in the list but is not operational (code 10). 
>>>When I go to MSINF032 and look under the Problem 
> 
> Devices, 
> 
>>>I see the "USB Mass Storage Device" with correct VID & 
>>>PID however there is an error message "This device 
> 
> cannot 
> 
>>>start".
>>>
>>>I've tried removing this device from Device Mgr and re-
>>>installing it all with no different results.
>>>
>>>Is there some service that must be running for these 
>>>devices to be automatically configured? Is there a way 
> 
> to 
> 
>>>reload the appropriate drivers. 
>>
>>.
>>

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