coolriviera

I've been going nuts over this ever since I recently bought a Verbatim Store 'N 'Go 8GB USB key - but despite numerous tweeks to the the registry + inf and USBSTOR file copies, updating the the drivers, etc. etc. as suggested on many forums, Windows Explorer and Disk Manager still freeze on me intermittently when plugging this key in. Today I tried the same key on an XP SP2 machine, it installed okay but then the same symptoms occurred all over again - so it's not just limited to Vista. I was beginning to think it was a duff key, BUT - and here's the interesting bit : when I insert my old USB key (USB 2.0, not "high speed", and only 256Mb) everything's fine. Leave it there and insert the new flash drive in a 2nd USB slot, and everything's still fine! Windows Explorer, Disk Manager, CHKDSK etc. , reading + writing files, etc. all work as they should! It's as if the smaller key (previously used on both machines with never a hitch, i.e. installed in the past), is keeping the system stable. And there's nothing apparently wrong with my new USB drive at all. I haven't yet applied for the 940199 fix suggested by Spegs21. But meanwhile, and while we all wait for a 'regular' MS fix, I just thought you'd like to know of this 'intermediary' fix!