Steve Hebert

My problem was almost exactly the same as Kain Bloodstones's with one exception his fix did not work on mine. Tried everything listed here. Everything gets recognized in my USB ports except any drives (USB and Freegate Back UP) Been fussing for 3 months trying everything. Then today for some reason I tried.. Using an expansion adapter - that goes from 1 USB input to 4 Plugged that in and plugged in my USB stick and VIOLA - recognized.. Tried it in the same thing with a different USB port and same results.. Catch - the adapters is only USB 1.1 So for some reason by restricting the USB port down to 1.1 it will recognize the USB drives, if left at 2.0 I always get error message. I know this is not a real fix, but it must tell me something. (I'm not computer savy enough to really know what) If someone here knows what that means and how it can be really fixed I'd love to hear. For now I am happy with USB drives at 1.1 PS my wife has exact same computer system both running XP Pro, and hers never has had a problem - I can find nothing different on her system from mine.