Re: Losing connection with USB drives

On 9 Aug 2025 17:07:52 GMT, Frank Slootweg <[email protected]>
wrote:

>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>.

Thanks very much for the advice.

I fear it may be a hardware problem, as when I booted Linux it too
could not find any of the USN drives.
>
>  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.

Thanks, I've done so. 



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