speedster00

if I type e:\ it gives me an error stating nothing is ascociated with it. But the drive is labled as E under disk management. No, windows doesnt bring up that prompt asking me what I want to do. Not necesarily a new install. about 2 months old. no problems until now. only thing that updated recently is the service pack for office 2007 (12) I dont remember that making a difference but it could have.

update. I got the infcache.1 file to rebuild itself....still no dice. it isnt recognizing USB drives...aahhhh

I did try that. the drive shows up....but then I unplug it and plug it back in and it doesnt show up again. then gives me an error that what ever I set the drive letter as has an error.

I have tried multiple drives via usb and they either FAT32 or NTFS show up as healthy. See attached screen shot

Its been going on a few weeks. Everytime I plug in ANY usb drive, it only shows up under Disk management. It wont show up under windows explorer. On top of that, Explorer opens very slowly. It takes about 20 seconds to open. The computer runs great. XP SP2, core 2 Duo, office 12. Everything runs fine. I have run every virus check I know of including HJT logs with no luck. One person advised me to delete my inpfcache.1 file and reboot. so I did. But the system didnt rebuild that file. I found this out because I was going to do it again and couldnt find the file. so I restored the file from the recycle been. Any ideas guys?