help please! annoying usb problem: "a problem occurred during hardware installation"
At some point in time, I'm not sure when or why, something happened so that now everytime I tried to plug something into a usb port that should be plug and play e.g. an external hard disk, digital camera, usb stick, new ipod etc... a little icon pops up in the bottom right saying "new hardware found, a problem occurred during hardware installation..".
Everything that used the usb ports before I started getting this problem still works, like my old ipod. However anything else gives me that problem, even my brand new ipod which I plugged into the same dock connected to the same usb port gives that error.
I have a feeling something along the way corrupted the way windows XP automatically registers new USB devices. I'm really desperate to get this fixed as hours of searching on the internet has proved fruitless.
try uninstalling your usb ports/hubs throught teh device manager, then restarting an dletting it reinstall the drivers.
Just tried it, now the USB 2.0 Root Hub in device manager has a yellow question mark and in properties in the device status is:
"This device cannot start. (Code 10)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device."
The driver seems to be the same as previously.
I can't use any external hard disks, transfer photos from a digital camera or get songs onto my new ipod until this is fixed so please if anyone has any idea... I'd like to try the sfc /scannow but I don't have an XP CD and I have a feeling that won't fix anything.
"This device cannot start. (Code 10)
Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device."
The driver seems to be the same as previously.
I can't use any external hard disks, transfer photos from a digital camera or get songs onto my new ipod until this is fixed so please if anyone has any idea... I'd like to try the sfc /scannow but I don't have an XP CD and I have a feeling that won't fix anything.
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