Surrey Dave
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| posted on 10/10/08 at 11:49 AM |
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XP cannot recognise mass storage device
Did some mods to my hard drive with partition magic, there was an error message and I lost a lot of stuff which I have got back with
RecoverMyFiles.
But xp now will not recognise my mass storage device and shows error message 10 cannot start device.
Anyone had this ?
Could be registry problem , can anyone recommend a good Registry repair tool?
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vinny1275
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| posted on 10/10/08 at 12:15 PM |
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You might just need to reinstall the drivers for it - what kind of device is it?
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Surrey Dave
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| posted on 10/10/08 at 12:18 PM |
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No Drivers
Its an external USB hard drive , it never had any drivers.
silly thing is that everything else usb is still working. printer ,mouse, even usb memory sticks, and camera cards!!
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Moorron
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| posted on 10/10/08 at 12:55 PM |
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are you using it thru a hub? i had issues with my bluetooth dongle and they only went away when i plugged it into the pc itself and not the USB hub on
the desk.
Worth a try?
Sorry about my spelling, im an engineer and only work in numbers.
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JeffHs
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| posted on 10/10/08 at 01:27 PM |
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I had that problem last year with an iPod.
I sent it back to Apple twice before I accepted that the problem was with XP.
The only solution I found was to reinstall XP - after wasting hours and hours of google searches and fixes to registry and all sorts of other things.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 10/10/08 at 03:25 PM |
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I've had the same symptoms before which was caused by a corrupted 'inf' (setup information) file in the cache. You can force
windows to rebuild the inf cache by deleteing it and you should find it at "C:\WINDOWS\inf\infcache.1" if you are running XP.
You will need to ensure you have explorer set to show file extensions and hidden/system files (which should have been be the default setting IMO,
stupid MS). Restart you machine after deleting the file.
[Edited on 10/10/08 by MikeRJ]
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BenB
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| posted on 10/10/08 at 05:34 PM |
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You can also get these problems with corrupted USB driver or if you're running it via a passive USB port (ie if the HD doesn't have an
external power supply and you're using the USB to supply the power).
I had terrible fun and games (if that's not an oxymoron) with I/O errors on my Ipod touch until I worked out that it was that occuring...
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