Re: The Real Difference Between XP Pro and XP Media Center
- From: Davered <Davered@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:51:00 -0800
I have exactly the same problem as Bernard, and have done ALL of the things
suggested here...and more. I've updated the BIOS, checked and double-checked
that I have the latest drivers. I've used the disk manager and tweakui, and
purchased separate disk manager sotware to try to get the external hard drive
to show up. Nothing works.
It does show up in the device manager just fine and also in the USB section
as a mass-storage drive. It just won't show up in a way that I can give it a
drive letter and use the thing. It worked fine on my previous computer (also
a MCE machine) but not my new one. I'd replace the external drive except
there are files on there I want.
HELP!!
By the way does Vista promise better USB management?
"S.Sengupta" wrote:
Check whether USB device is listed under the Device Manager.If,so, but.
there's no drive letter assigned to the drive, see if you can
assign a drive letter to the device.
If the USB device is listed in Disk Management with an assigned drive
letter, right-click on its listing and select Explore from the submenu.
Check whether Windows Explorer can open that or not.
If you are using a USB Hub then remove the component from that and
attach the device directly to the USB port.
Try different USB ports.You may try with different USB cable too.
In the USB controllers section of Device Manager, uninstall all the USB
controllers listed and reboot.
regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
Bernard.Luksich@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well I have been trying to find what exactly is going on between XP Pro
and XP Media Center. Reading the posts here I have seen a number of
folks quote the Microsoft description that XP Media Center is a
"super-set" of XP Pro. But with a few thing turned off like a) ability
to join a domain and b) does not cache credentials.
So on the basis of this I decided to buy and use the XP Media Center
that came with my new HP machine. We use a domain at home so we were
prepared to deal with the "can't join the domain" issue.
As a side comment, if you name the Work Group the same as you Domain,
at least the server (domain controller) plays nice with you.
Anyhow, it seems I keep running into little things that work well on my
XP Pro machines but don't do so well on XP Media Center.
The latest one that has happened is none of my external USB hard drives
work. You know those cases you install an IDE drive in them and it
plugs into the USB port. We were using this to move some files around
and come to find out, you plug it into the Media Center machine and it
detects the USB device but then never assigns a letter, Just does not
work. This is the same for even another brand (for the 2.5 inch
drives). Works fine on Pro but no go on Media Center.
Checking around at least one manufacturer of these enclosures reports
"we don't support Media Center".
OK this more than saying XP Media Center is really XP Pro pulse some
stuff.
So who knows what is going on here? What other things are not
supported in this operating system? If someone had answered this
somewhere here we would not have wasted our time accommodating Media
Center until we get to something like this.
Any suggests would be appreciated. We are thinking we need to just
format the hard drive and attempt an XP Pro install to unravel this
mess.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Bernie
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