[ingipops]

Hi

posting in here hoping form some friendly (simple!) advice.

I am a complete techie dunce and will do my best to offer as much information as possible.

I have been using Calibre with great success for some time now, I use it to put books on both my Kindle Fire and an old Sony reader.

The Sony reader recently died, this may be where my woes started as I guddled about a bit with settings (changing file formats).

Anyway, a wee while ago I had an 'update' message and I opted to upgrade to newer version and it now seems my Calibre isn't seeing my kindle.

I am using a wee netbook with Windows XP

Some time has been spent on this.

Firstly I uninstalled the new Calibre and went back to previous version 1.48

I restored my kindle to factory settings

I cried a wee bit

I made sure I was connecting only one device at a time.

I ensured my operating system is seeing the kindle...it is.

Ive checked under preferences to make sure its not an ignored device...its not

I at this point retired for coffee and cake

Ive gone to 'preferences' miscellaneous and did a 'debug device detection' and this was the result...

calibre 1.48 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP2 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', 'XP', '5.1.2600')
Python 2.7.5
Windows: ('XP', '5.1.2600', 'SP2', 'Multiprocessor Free')
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27cb&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27ca&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c9&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid27c8&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid27cc&rev0002',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_219c&rev_0628',
u'usb\\vid_1949&pid_000a&rev_0216',
u'usb\\vid_2232&pid_1006&rev_0003',
u'usb\\vid_2232&pid_1006&rev_0003&mi_00']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\scanner.py", line 85, in __call__
DriveError: No removable drives found
Drives detected:

Disabled plugins: ITUNES

Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
Cannot detect MTP devices
MTP devices are not supported on Windows XP

Looking for devices...

Devices possibly connected: None



I've now swore a few times and cried a bit more, Ive spent 6 hours (on my day off when I could be reading!) on this.

I am not very techie (read as techno dunce) and wondered if anyone could shed some light, short of me buying a new kindle/laptop?

Many many thanks in advance.

Ingi