USB problems

[blacjac]

Solution Linux

OK, so what was the question?

[Spacecadet]

One thing which may lead to this issue is if you don't use the "remove hardware" control in windows before disconnecting anything from the USB ports.

Personally I'm pretty lazy so I don't bother

Can anyone confirm that they get this issue whilst ALWAYS going through the correct procedure to remove hardware?

[blacjac]

One thing which may lead to this issue is if you don't use the "remove hardware" control in windows before disconnecting anything from the USB ports.

Personally I'm pretty lazy so I don't bother

Can anyone confirm that they get this issue whilst ALWAYS going through the correct procedure to remove hardware?

Not performing "remove hardware" can lead to loss of data when using USB storage devices.

However, I have had this problem when allways dong that, but it was on XP.

The problem I had was that I used several different USB sticks on the same PC (not at the same time), every one of them got assigned a different drive letter by XP. At one point, XP got confused and assigned 2 of them the same drive letter. From this point on one of them would not work until I used the drive manager to remove the dirve letter and let XP reassign them different ones again.

Right Click on "My Computer" -> Manage
Once in, Storage -> Disk management.


Don't know why I forgot this earlier.

[Dante]

Agree with above - teh first place to look is Disk Management - if you can see it as a lump of storage with no drive letter assigned - you're in business. If you can't then it's possibly a more fundamental driver/hardware issue.

Have a look in device manager as you plug it in to see if it tries to load a driver for it...

[Paddy]

Many USB problems are caused by cheap on=board chip sets on PCs and laptops.