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I have 2 card readers in my PC. One is built into the HP printer and the other is a combo with the floppy drive. On a fresh boot both will read a card with no problem. I use windows explorer to view the contents of the card. Then when I click on the tray icon "Safely Remove Hardware" It will show me the drive letters to select which one I want to remove the card from. When I click the one im using while watching windows explorer window the drive will dissapear, and the tray icon will say it is now safe to remove. So after I remove the card the drive does not reappear. Actually Im not sure what is supposed to happen when I click on the tray icon. Is the drive supposed to dissapear temporarily? This happpens with both card readers. When I check in Device Mgr. I have a yellow exclamation next to the USB mass storage device. If I take the properties of the mass storage drive it gives me the following statement.
Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for "safe removal", but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47)
To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again.
If I reboot the computer everything is back to normal until I repeat the above sequence.
I must admit that the card was pulled from the (card reader - floppy combo) with out using the safe to remove icon several times by my kids until I told them not to do it that way. The printer card reader I dont think it ever was pulled incorrectly.
Ive tried removing ALL the USB items from Device Mgr and then rebooting the computer so there would be a fresh install of all the USB items. Ive tried every combination of removing and reinstaling that I can think of and it still acts the same way. Ive tried different USB ports. My PC has 3 difference sets.
1. One is a add on PCI card with firewire and USB internal and external.
2. Is a "D" bracket that plugs into the motherboard. It has 2 external ports.
3. There are also 2 external ports from the motherboard.
Ive tried them all and still get the same results.
So now Im thinking its a Windows XP Pro SP2 problem.
Anybody know how I can fix this?
Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for "safe removal", but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47)
To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again.
If I reboot the computer everything is back to normal until I repeat the above sequence.
I must admit that the card was pulled from the (card reader - floppy combo) with out using the safe to remove icon several times by my kids until I told them not to do it that way. The printer card reader I dont think it ever was pulled incorrectly.
Ive tried removing ALL the USB items from Device Mgr and then rebooting the computer so there would be a fresh install of all the USB items. Ive tried every combination of removing and reinstaling that I can think of and it still acts the same way. Ive tried different USB ports. My PC has 3 difference sets.
1. One is a add on PCI card with firewire and USB internal and external.
2. Is a "D" bracket that plugs into the motherboard. It has 2 external ports.
3. There are also 2 external ports from the motherboard.
Ive tried them all and still get the same results.
So now Im thinking its a Windows XP Pro SP2 problem.
Anybody know how I can fix this?