USB Help!!

[entipy]

DAMMIT man. I have two USB ports on the front of my computer, and I use them both regularly with two different flash drives I have. Neither of the USP ports will now recognize EITHER of the flash drives, but they must work because I synced my Palm using them both, and it did fine.

Dude, WTF? My financial stuff is on one drive, and our company back-ups are on the other. DAMMIT!

(I already rebooted once. Didn't make a difference.)

Any help/ideas? Please?? Pretty please???

[Poseidon]

there are probably USB ports on the back. Try to use them to see if data comes up. Also, do they completely fail to detect, or does the computer still makes the "USB device detected" sound?

I had situations where the Drive Letter failed to be assigned for some reason.

right click on "my computer"-> Manage,
click on the "Disk Management" on the left side and scroll through drives. If you see one that's white, has XX.XX GB or MB but no drive letter, right click on it and it will give you "change drive letter or path" option.

Trying the drives on another computer wouldn't hurt either.

Flash drives not as permanent as people think they are..

Obligatory linux link: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

[JakeD]

Haha ur fail.






Also, what Pos said. And not to be Captain Obvious, but have you unplugged the drives, rebooted, and then reconnected once it boots to Windows?

[entipy]

there are probably USB ports on the back. Try to use them to see if data comes up. Also, do they completely fail to detect, or does the computer still makes the "USB device detected" sound?
I tried both drives on both extra USB ports on the back of my machine. It did the "found new hardware installation" bit then gave me this error message:

http://www.nookra.com/1.gif



I had situations where the Drive Letter failed to be assigned for some reason.

right click on "my computer"-> Manage,
click on the "Disk Management" on the left side and scroll through drives. If you see one that's white, has XX.XX GB or MB but no drive letter, right click on it and it will give you "change drive letter or path" option. Okay - this is what I saw in there (note: when I click on "Disk Management" the only two things which show up are the C: drive and the CD-ROM):

http://www.nookra.com/2.gif



Trying the drives on another computer wouldn't hurt either.I tried one of them on my co-worker's machine. (She's running XP. I'm running Win2K.) It installed fine on there, and I could see all the data. (That was the Toshiba. I couldn't plug the SanDisk in because of how the case is designed.)



Flash drives not as permanent as people think they are..Great

Thanks, Pos. Can you tell me anything based on those images? My other co-worker (who is also running Win2K) and I have had some other strange issues lately.

Now, for some further detail - in case it's relevant - I have two USB ports on the front of my machine. Usually, I plug the Toshiba into the top one and the SanDisk into the bottom one. I have had them both in there simultaneously on multiple occasions. This morning, I plugged the Toshiba into the top one and plugged the SanDisk in the bottom one immediately afterwards. It, apparently, hadn't had time to recognize the first one before I inserted the second, and it went to the "installing new hardware" dialogue - which it doesn't normally do. Then, it gave me the error message in the first image above. Then they wouldn't work at all with either flash drive.

?

[entipy]

Haha ur fail.






Also, what Pos said. And not to be Captain Obvious, but have you unplugged the drives, rebooted, and then reconnected once it boots to Windows?
HAHA UR STFU!

Yes, I rebooted.

[James]

I'm not familiar with win2k, but have you tried uninstalling all those instances of "sandisk cruzer"?
You could even risk uninstalling all the other duplicate ones, but don't blame me if something goes wrong. :angel:

[Poseidon]

HAH. W2K. Problem with win 2000 is that it did not implement USB all that well. It was not all that native. Tell your IT department that it's time to upgrade windows, machines or both. There is not much you can do otherwise.

[Poseidon]

HAHA UR STFU!

Yes, I rebooted.

That did not invalidate his point of "haha ur fail."

:)

[entipy]

:finger:

I *am* our "IT Department." :lolrotf:

[Bassmama]

Guess u gotta tell yourself, huh?

[trekbugging]

thought about using re-writable cd's instead?
or even just plain CD-R's as you can buy 100 Cd's for about 12 bucks
or is you cd drive not a writer?

[entipy]

Well, yeah, that's how I used to do back-ups. But the flash drive just seemed so much quicker and more convenient. And I talked my boss into buying one for the purpose. LOL.