XP - explorer hangs after resume with USB flash drive

[varsakelis]

I'm stumped by this one - would greatly appreciate any help:

1. On an XP machine, I plug in a USB flash drive and move some files on/off it, work, etc.
2. I put the machine into hibernation, with the USB flash still attached (i.e., without "safely removing it").
3. I bring the PC out of hibernation.

Now, when I try to open the USB flash or look at my hard disk, that window just hangs (I get the "hourglass" mouse pointer when moving over the window). "Killing" the window kills explorer.exe. If I manually run explorer.exe after that, it still does the same thing. I can still use my web browser, but cannot view the contents of any drives. he only way out is a hard reset.

The problem has appeared suddenly, without me having installed any new programs recently.

The problem does NOT occur if I "safely remove" the USB flash before hibernating. It also does not occur
on other XP machines with the same USB flash.

Anyone out there have encountered this before?

Thanks,

Dimitris

 

[ATAT]

I'v got the same problem! Does anyone have the solution? First time I thought it's something about power saving, but it is turned off on my USB ports...