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I had my Canon camera connected to my pc this evening via its USB cable.
Suddenly the connection failed and an error message was displayed:
"One of the usb devices connected to this computer has malfunctioned and
Windows does not recognise it......................"
I have tried different cables, each of the 6 USB ports on my pc,
re-installing the camera driver and rolling back to the last System
Checkpoint. Didn't fix the problem.
To make it worse, now all my mass storage devices produce the same
symptoms - external hard drive, portable storage device for my camera,
Olympus MRobe mp3 player. I can't use any of them.
All my other USB devices (DSL modem, printer and scanner still work fine)
and all the mass storage devices still work with my laptop.
I'm running WXP SP2.
I thought of doing a "Repair" on my XP installation, but my Windows CD is
SP1 with SP2 added as a download. I got an error message that the version I
was about to install is older than the version on my pc. Should I uninstall
SP2 and do a repair?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks for any advice.
Michael
I had my Canon camera connected to my pc this evening via its USB cable.
Suddenly the connection failed and an error message was displayed:
"One of the usb devices connected to this computer has malfunctioned and
Windows does not recognise it......................"
I have tried different cables, each of the 6 USB ports on my pc,
re-installing the camera driver and rolling back to the last System
Checkpoint. Didn't fix the problem.
To make it worse, now all my mass storage devices produce the same
symptoms - external hard drive, portable storage device for my camera,
Olympus MRobe mp3 player. I can't use any of them.
All my other USB devices (DSL modem, printer and scanner still work fine)
and all the mass storage devices still work with my laptop.
I'm running WXP SP2.
I thought of doing a "Repair" on my XP installation, but my Windows CD is
SP1 with SP2 added as a download. I got an error message that the version I
was about to install is older than the version on my pc. Should I uninstall
SP2 and do a repair?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks for any advice.
Michael