XP SP2 "fixed" ext. USB Hard Drive BUT now it is NOT being..

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

USB device does not function after connecting device to Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;870893&Product=windowsxpsp2

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/defaul...

------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Steve" wrote:

| Problem:
|
| Ext USB hard drive (contains archived files) has been used well with
| old XP computer for past 2 yrs now. In the course of (i) transfering
| to a new computer with SP2 and (ii) updating old computer with XP SP2,
| the ext USB hard Drive no longer works with either computer.
|
| Symptoms:
|
| MS XP "Disk Management" -- I can "see" the hard drive as "DISK 1".
| BUT it describes the HD as "Unallocated" and Windows Explorer doesn't
| assign a drive letter so I can't get to the files on it.
|
| MS XP "Device Manager" -- under "Universal Serial Bus controllers" it
| has "USB Mass Storage Device" installed and its properties show it as
| "functioning properly". Under "Disk Drive" it has the specific hard
| drive (IBM DJSA-210) installed and it too says "functioning properly".
|
| History:
| In the course of transfering files from my old computer to my new
| computer, I copied all my personal documents onto the ext hard drive.
| At one point, the old computer rebooted with the ext hard drive
| plugged it -- This was the first time this happened after the old
| computer was upgraded with XP SP2.
|
| During the reboot, a blue screen appears with XP windows in the upper
| left hand corner and it said something like "disk partition
| error...windows XP fixing".
|
| After XP SP2 'fixed' the ext hard drive, I have had the problem &
| symptom described above when using it with both the old and new
| computer.
|
| I Really need to recover the files. Is there an "undelete"
| application that can "look" at the ext hard drive without Explorer
| assigning it a drive letter?
|
| Thank You,
| Steve

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Yup, the problems are small with SP2......A HD doesn't work requiring
someone to have to buy a Belkin USB Hub Adaptor or something similiar....
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:ukeFiXfjEHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> USB device does not function after connecting device to Windows XP Service
Pack 2-based computer
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;870893&Product=windowsxpsp2
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
>
> Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/defaul...
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Steve" wrote:
>
> | Problem:
> |
> | Ext USB hard drive (contains archived files) has been used well with
> | old XP computer for past 2 yrs now. In the course of (i) transfering
> | to a new computer with SP2 and (ii) updating old computer with XP SP2,
> | the ext USB hard Drive no longer works with either computer.
> |
> | Symptoms:
> |
> | MS XP "Disk Management" -- I can "see" the hard drive as "DISK 1".
> | BUT it describes the HD as "Unallocated" and Windows Explorer doesn't
> | assign a drive letter so I can't get to the files on it.
> |
> | MS XP "Device Manager" -- under "Universal Serial Bus controllers" it
> | has "USB Mass Storage Device" installed and its properties show it as
> | "functioning properly". Under "Disk Drive" it has the specific hard
> | drive (IBM DJSA-210) installed and it too says "functioning properly".
> |
> | History:
> | In the course of transfering files from my old computer to my new
> | computer, I copied all my personal documents onto the ext hard drive.
> | At one point, the old computer rebooted with the ext hard drive
> | plugged it -- This was the first time this happened after the old
> | computer was upgraded with XP SP2.
> |
> | During the reboot, a blue screen appears with XP windows in the upper
> | left hand corner and it said something like "disk partition
> | error...windows XP fixing".
> |
> | After XP SP2 'fixed' the ext hard drive, I have had the problem &
> | symptom described above when using it with both the old and new
> | computer.
> |
> | I Really need to recover the files. Is there an "undelete"
> | application that can "look" at the ext hard drive without Explorer
> | assigning it a drive letter?
> |
> | Thank You,
> | Steve