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Yeah I have tried removing them, thing is when i then plug in my usb mouse it does the whole install thing and then works fine. However if it's my external hard drive it just crashes. Yes I have, Daemon tools I've since uninstalled though. Could this be causing the problem? Ok well thanks for the thorough explanation JedMeister I'll try that in a bit and get back to you.

Yeah I have tried removing them, thing is when i then plug in my usb mouse it does the whole install thing and then works fine. However if it's my external hard drive it just crashes. Yes I have, Daemon tools I've since uninstalled though. Could this be causing the problem? Ok well thanks for the thorough explanation JedMeister I'll try that in a bit and get back to you.

Yeah I have scanned for new hardware and disabled then re-enabled the device, doesn't make a difference. Thanks anyway though.

Hey sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you, I tried it in safe mode, still froze. I didn't understand the rest of your suggestion JedMeister but still thanks for posting it. Yeah it's all ports IcemanND. I reckon I'm going to have to take the computer to be fixed somewhere cause it's driving me mad.

Hi thanks for the advice but that didn't help either. Anybody got any other thoughts by any chance?

Hmm, I'm not sure. I was thinking it probably wasn't a hardware issue because my USB ports work fine if I'm plugging in my mouse or my scanner, it's just my pendrive external hard drive and iPod that crash it. I am fairly clueless though so I don't know, could it be?

Cheers mate but unfortunately this is the first thing I tried, the whole thing still freezes up every time a device is connected.

About a month ago I turned on my external hard drive and my PC just froze. This then happened every time I tried to turn it on so I unhappily admitted to myself my hard drive was buggered however when I tried it on another computer I found it worked fine. At this point I tried connecting my iPod to my comp, this also crashed it. My USB mouse works fine so I'm guessing it's a storage device problem. I have no idea what caused this or how to sort it, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.