Re: Losing connection with USB drives

Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote:
> My Windows XP computer has gradually been losing its connection with
> USB drives and the printer, and now seems to have lost contact
> altogether.
> 
> Other USB devices, like mouse and keyboard work OK.
> 
> For a while rebooting would make it possible to communicate with USB
> drives, and would cause stuck printer pages to print, but now on
> rebooting it shows the printer as offline, and even if I switch it to
> online, it does not print. 
> 
> Any suggestions?

  What does Disk Management say about the USB drives and what does
Device Manager (use 'Action -> Scan for hardware changes' and 'View ->
Show hidden devices') say about the USB drives and the (USB?) printer
(look at the 'Universal Serial Bus controllers' tree and the 'Disk
Drives' and 'Printer queues' trees)?

  As to general USB troubleshooting, look at Uwe Sieber's USB
utilities at <www.uwe-sieber.de>.

  When responding, please crosspost to alt.windows7.general. That's of
course not an XP group, but several people there still use XP or also
use XP.