USB thumbdrives want to load a driver now...

[coastergeez]

Strange problem started...whenever I want to use a USB thumbdrive or
my USB external harddrive, Windows says found new hardware then the
Found New Hardware Wizard appears. I have tried letting it search for
the driver and also tried picking some from \system32\drivers as well
as the i386 directory. I reloaded my updated for SP2 as well the
hotfix for Windows XP 226205 to no avail. My USB mouse still works,
seems to be anything drive related.

Anyone know whats going on here and how do I get the drivers back? I
even removed all the USB related items in device manager, redetected
and it loaded everything back but my USB drives still dont work.

TIA

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Re: USB thumbdrives want to load a driver now...

coastergeez wrote:
> Strange problem started...whenever I want to use a USB thumbdrive or
> my USB external harddrive, Windows says found new hardware then the
> Found New Hardware Wizard appears. I have tried letting it search for
> the driver and also tried picking some from \system32\drivers as well
> as the i386 directory. I reloaded my updated for SP2 as well the
> hotfix for Windows XP 226205 to no avail. My USB mouse still works,
> seems to be anything drive related.
>
> Anyone know whats going on here and how do I get the drivers back? I
> even removed all the USB related items in device manager, redetected
> and it loaded everything back but my USB drives still dont work.


Sounds like this issue:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers


Uwe

 

[coastergeez]

Re: USB thumbdrives want to load a driver now...

On Jul 9, 2:06 am, Uwe Sieber <m...@uwe-sieber.de> wrote:
> coastergeez wrote:
> > Strange problem started...whenever I want to use a USB thumbdrive or
> > my USB external harddrive, Windows says found new hardware then the
> > Found New Hardware Wizard appears. I have tried letting it search for
> > the driver and also tried picking some from \system32\drivers as well
> > as the i386 directory. I reloaded my updated for SP2 as well the
> > hotfix for Windows XP 226205 to no avail. My USB mouse still works,
> > seems to be anything drive related.
>
> > Anyone know whats going on here and how do I get the drivers back? I
> > even removed all the USB related items in device manager, redetected
> > and it loaded everything back but my USB drives still dont work.
>
> Sounds like this issue:http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers
>
> Uwe

Thanks! I ended up repairing the INF folder by just copying it from
another XP machine. All works now! whew.