I deleted the iecache or whatever that file name was, but did not affect
anything. At my borther in laws suggestion, also went into Control
Panel-System-Hardware-Device Manager-USB Controllers and updated the Host
drivers. Did the update, but still won't 'read' USB drives. My computer
opens my personal USB drive just fine; but if I put in someone else's (most
frequently SanDisk mini cruzer), I get the message of 'found new hardware'
etc, I'll let the system go out and try to find a driver, but it never does;
when it asks if we want to insert CD, I insert my Windows XP Pro Edition SP2
CD and it searches there, but never finds it there either. I've done all
available Windows updates. This is really getting annoying. At least when I
had Win 98 I could go to the drive's web site and download drivers for Win
98SE.

"Uwe Sieber" wrote:

> Joyce wrote:
> > Recently upgraded to Windows XP from 98, primarily so I could open files from
> > other people's jump drives/USBs without having to download drivers. My
> > system recognizes my own jump drive, but the two others I've tried it does
> > not see. I get messages something to the effect of 'do you want to look on
> > the CD', so I put my Windows XP CD in, but it never finds it. And, of
> > course, now I'm running XP not 98 so even if I wanted to go through the
> > time/trouble to go to the internet and download, they don't have drivers for
> > XP...they all state that XP automatically will run them. I'm not a tech
> > savvy person, so this frustrates the heck out of me. Any ideas??
>
> Maybe this:
>
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_...ks_for_drivers
>
>
>
> Uwe
>
>

Joyce,
are you on a network? is there other drives using "F:\" as there path? if
so that could be the problem. I had to change drive letters to use my usb
storage devices.
"Joyce" <Joyce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2B8DA575-8CE4-497B-AC52-38767BE85B36@microsoft.com...
>I deleted the iecache or whatever that file name was, but did not affect
> anything. At my borther in laws suggestion, also went into Control
> Panel-System-Hardware-Device Manager-USB Controllers and updated the Host
> drivers. Did the update, but still won't 'read' USB drives. My computer
> opens my personal USB drive just fine; but if I put in someone else's
> (most
> frequently SanDisk mini cruzer), I get the message of 'found new hardware'
> etc, I'll let the system go out and try to find a driver, but it never
> does;
> when it asks if we want to insert CD, I insert my Windows XP Pro Edition
> SP2
> CD and it searches there, but never finds it there either. I've done all
> available Windows updates. This is really getting annoying. At least when
> I
> had Win 98 I could go to the drive's web site and download drivers for Win
> 98SE.
>
> "Uwe Sieber" wrote:
>
>> Joyce wrote:
>> > Recently upgraded to Windows XP from 98, primarily so I could open
>> > files from
>> > other people's jump drives/USBs without having to download drivers. My
>> > system recognizes my own jump drive, but the two others I've tried it
>> > does
>> > not see. I get messages something to the effect of 'do you want to look
>> > on
>> > the CD', so I put my Windows XP CD in, but it never finds it. And, of
>> > course, now I'm running XP not 98 so even if I wanted to go through the
>> > time/trouble to go to the internet and download, they don't have
>> > drivers for
>> > XP...they all state that XP automatically will run them. I'm not a
>> > tech
>> > savvy person, so this frustrates the heck out of me. Any ideas??
>>
>> Maybe this:
>>
>> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_...ks_for_drivers
>>
>>
>>
>> Uwe
>>
>>

Joyce,
are you on a network? is there other drives using "F:\" as there path? if
so that could be the problem. I had to change drive letters to use my usb
storage devices.
"Joyce" <Joyce@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2B8DA575-8CE4-497B-AC52-38767BE85B36@microsoft.com...
>I deleted the iecache or whatever that file name was, but did not affect
> anything. At my borther in laws suggestion, also went into Control
> Panel-System-Hardware-Device Manager-USB Controllers and updated the Host
> drivers. Did the update, but still won't 'read' USB drives. My computer
> opens my personal USB drive just fine; but if I put in someone else's
> (most
> frequently SanDisk mini cruzer), I get the message of 'found new hardware'
> etc, I'll let the system go out and try to find a driver, but it never
> does;
> when it asks if we want to insert CD, I insert my Windows XP Pro Edition
> SP2
> CD and it searches there, but never finds it there either. I've done all
> available Windows updates. This is really getting annoying. At least when
> I
> had Win 98 I could go to the drive's web site and download drivers for Win
> 98SE.
>
> "Uwe Sieber" wrote:
>
>> Joyce wrote:
>> > Recently upgraded to Windows XP from 98, primarily so I could open
>> > files from
>> > other people's jump drives/USBs without having to download drivers. My
>> > system recognizes my own jump drive, but the two others I've tried it
>> > does
>> > not see. I get messages something to the effect of 'do you want to look
>> > on
>> > the CD', so I put my Windows XP CD in, but it never finds it. And, of
>> > course, now I'm running XP not 98 so even if I wanted to go through the
>> > time/trouble to go to the internet and download, they don't have
>> > drivers for
>> > XP...they all state that XP automatically will run them. I'm not a
>> > tech
>> > savvy person, so this frustrates the heck out of me. Any ideas??
>>
>> Maybe this:
>>
>> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_...ks_for_drivers
>>
>>
>>
>> Uwe
>>
>>