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Originally Posted by The Brass
For what it is worth, I found the problem or cure for this computer. There was 2 usb printers and usb wireless mouse. If I unplugged the printers the flash drive would work. Plugged the printers back in and could not get a flash drives to work. I am guessing that the printers are pulling enough juice that the flash drives would not work. Will be trying a powered USB hub next to see if in helps.
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Hi, did you ever find a resolution for this problem, as I am having the same problem.
We bought a new computer - generic pent. 4 - with XP Pro SP 3. The USB mouse, modem and printer all work fine, but it won't work USB flash drives. We've tried 5 different ones.
Some are recognised as USB mass storage device, but then a message comes up that there was an error installing the device. Others are not recognised at all. Occassionaly one of them is recognised and I'm even told they are installed and ready to use, but when I try to access the drive in explorer I cannot read to or from it.
I've looked in "system" and there is a yellow exclamation mark next the "mass media device" in the USB section. This suggests a driver problem, but these shouldn't need a driver.
It's really very frustrating.