Re: USB Drive not recognized - Driving me crazy!!!

just a quick update, did not have much luck with the drivers on the floppy,
or finding any drivers on the SeaGate web site, but I did find a link in
these discussions to a site offering tips for this problem, sorry you have to
read through the posts to find it, I could not see it when I tried to find it
again, it was to do with usb drives, anyway one of the tips was to check if
Crytographic Services was running, in my case it was, but the next tip to
check the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion the item
DevicePath must point to %SystemRoot%\inf additional items seperated by a
semikolon are ok, the "inf" was missing from my string, so i added it and
Wow, the drive is now working. Hope this might help someone,
Bob

"bob" wrote:

Thank you both for your help, I will keep trying with the floppy, on a quick
look on the SeaGate web site it just states you do not need any drivers, I
will have a good look round and see what I can dig up,
Thanks for taking the time to try and help
Bob


"Jim Cladingboel" wrote:

Bob, as I said in my original message it can take days of trying before the
damned Wizard suddenly seems to give in.
XP has had a serious problem with USB 2.0 devices since day one and _nothing
at all_ has been done about it.
A lady named Anna on this NG stated some time ago that MS/others were
investigating the problem, and she had a tutorial on things to do to get a
USB 2.00 device working, although her advices didn't help me.
MS, of course, would prefer you upgraded (?) to Vista. But that has its own
problems!
It's boring and frustrating, but getting the wizard to look at Drive A seems
to be the only way to go. Sorry.
PS: You could try putting the files on a CDRW and try for a result that way,

Jim.

"bob" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5C2E41F3-7695-4383-B4B4-851767FB762D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I did update the chip set drivers for my Intel motherboard, will this cover
it or will I need to download any other files ?, on another note, I tried
copying the usb files to a floppy, but I keep getting an error message
that
this location does not contain any device information files, should I keep
trying, or is there something else I need to do, Bob

"bojimbo26@xxxxxxx" wrote:


You may need updated drivers .




On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:35:01 -0800, bob
<bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been having the same problem, I can use my usb mouse, keyboard,
printer, scanner, pen drive, freecom 80Gb external drive, camera etc
with no
problems. I have just bought a Seagate FreeAgent desktop 500GB drive,
when
connected, the found new hardware wizard pops up, and asks for a driver.
It
is not listed in my computer, but is in device manager under other
devices
with a yellow question mark, and the code 28, I tried the drive on an XP
Pro
machine and it worked ok. Has anyone looked at MS article 925196, not
being
that up on computers, I wonder if this would help, or mess up my other
devices, also I am not sure what bits to delete in the registry. In
registry
editor under the string
{4D36E980-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} in the right panel it lists
{default}, Class, EnumPropPages32, Icon, NoInstallClass, SilentInstall,
TroubleShooter-0
String {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} right panel lists
{Default}, Class, Icon, Installer32, LowerFilters, NoInstallClass,
SilentInstall, TroubleShooter-0, UpperFilters

Not sure what any of this means, or which bits you are supposed to
delete,
Thanks for any help you can give,
Bob


"nesredep egrob" wrote:

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:39:00 -0700, Uncly Milty <Uncly
Milty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been fighting the same problem for over a year. What I have
learned so
far is that my Intel USB controller 82801DB will not recognize any
USB2
device, I have a scanner and a printer running on USB ports but they
are USB1
devices. I have a friend with a computer simliar to mine with an Itel
82801EB
usb controller, his driver date is 2002, mine is 2001. Very obviously
the
service pack 2 that microsoft has admitted to has not been fixed.
I finally gave up and purchased a five port USB PCI card and guess
what
these ports will recognive any usb 2 device but will not run at the
higher
transfer speed. I bought this pci card from TigarDirect for $15, it
is a
Masscool 5-port USB 2.0 PCI card (S457-1080)
I hope this helps because we sure are not going to get help from
Microsoft.

"John Slattery" wrote:

I really hope someone out there can give me some substantive help
with this.
I have just purchased a Dell 512mb Flash Drive and my system at
home will not
recognize the device. I have also had the same problem with a
SanDisk 512 mb
flash drive. Both of these drives have worked fine on numerous
other
computers. My system is running Windows XP Pro with SP2 loaded. The
USB Host
Controller drivers (Intel) have all been updated, uninstalled,
reinstalled,
and updated again. I have checked everything I can think of in
Device
Manager. I even went into BIOS out of desperation.

That is interesting - why desparation. I would have thought you would
be on the
right track there as you below refer to another symptom, trying to
boot the
machine with the Flash Drive inserted - surely that shows you that the
boot
order is not in the correct 'order' - reset the boot order to be C:,
CD drive
and then A: - make absolutely sure that the USB is not mentioned in
the boot
order.

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

Nothing I have tried works.
Another symptom I have noticed is that if I try to boot the machine
with the
Flash Drive inserted, the machine will not boot and tells me it
cannot find
the OS.
Please help, I've been everything from a software engineer to a
network
administrator, to a programming teacherfor 17 years and I've never
had a
computer problem that frustrated me this much. I've googled this to
death and
it seems like i see the problem posted a lot, but no useful
solutions.
HELP!!!!!






.

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