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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i feel your pain, moejoe. usb has caused me immeasurable frustration on more than one occasion (and over-zealous packaging, even more often). "plug and play" my-- ahem. you get the idea. i hope you get it sorted soon. a little tip which miraculously fixed things for me when suddenly *none* of my usb devices were recognised anymore (god knows why) : shut down computer. unplug it from the wall. push and hold "on" button for 30 seconds. restart computer. apparently that re-initialises the bios or something. since it took me 3 days of searching even the most obscure recesses of The Intarwebs to find that little tip and since before finding it i had tried god knows how many other "solutions" to no avail and next on my list was something extreme like editing the registry or something, i pass it along to all of you now, as my gift, should you ever need it. share the love, tell your friends.
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A power cycle and cold boot cures many computer ills. I haven't had to actually unplug mine from the wall that often (and when I did, it was to wake up a flaky power supply) but a cold boot can be useful. It basically forces a fresh start on the whole "what's connected?" discovery process done by the BIOS during POST.
I'm mumbling to myself now because of similar issues. I have multiple physical hard drives -- 8 total, 7 IDE and one SATA. After working fine for a bit, Win XP will suddenly decide one or more of the drives don't exist, sometimes having them disappear while the machine is up and running. The SATA drive is the one it normally happens to, with an older, smaller IDE drive the other usual suspect.
And I triple boot Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, and Ubuntu 9.10. Ubuntu is installed on an ext3 partition on one of the drives. Every time I reboot, WinXP thinks that drive has a problem with the file system and must be checked. I thinks it's flustered by the non MS file system on the drive...
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Dennis