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Old 01-05-2006, 02:20 AM
benkmann
 
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Default USB Flash Drive Not Recognized


Hey all,

I recently bought a 512 MB PNY Flash Drive (USB 2.0), brought it home,
and it worked great for about a week. Then all of sudden yesterday, it
refused to be recognized. I run Windows XP home, so it SHOULD have the
driver for the device. Here's what happens:

I plug it in, and it says "Found new device." Then it says "There was
an error installing the device. You should re-plug the device or
replace the device." Ha, false on count 2. The device is still good
because it is recognized on other computers. I tried uninstalling the
driver, but then as soon as I plug the drive back in it just repeats
itself.

So I checked in Device Manager. It's listed as "Unknown Device" under
the USB category, but there is no exclamation point to it. I click on
it, and it says there's no driver for it!

And yet Windows HAS the driver...hm...

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

-Curt


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