speedster00 Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 In disk management, what file system and disk type does it have for the volume? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedster00 Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 In disk management, what file system and disk type does it have for the volume?I have tried multiple drives via usb and they either FAT32 or NTFS show up as healthy. See attached screen shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe43wv Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 (edited) Have you tried changing the drive letters? Try changing the drive letter to something higher up like L or M. This may not work but it's worth a shot. I've seen this fix issues like this one before. Edited June 27, 2008 by joe43wv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedster00 Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 Have you tried changing the drive letters? Try changing the drive letter to something higher up like L or M. This may not work but it's worth a shot. I've seen this fix issues like this one before.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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedster00 Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 update. I got the infcache.1 file to rebuild itself....still no dice. it isnt recognizing USB drives...aahhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadav Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 If you have Daemon Tools installed, or it used to be installed, try removing it or reinstalling. I had a similar problem with a corrupt DT installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 what drive letters do you have now? without a device plugged in and what are they?Any network drives?If the next drive letter after the last physical drive in your machine is used for a network drive the system will still try and use that drive letter for a physical drive when added to the system like a usb device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReasonIFail Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 (edited) What happens if you type E:\ or whatever letter is given to the USB drive in the run windows and try to browse it that way?When you plug in a USB drive, does Windows bring up the little "What do you want Windows to do?" window?Is this a new install of Windows?Any software recently updated or removed? Edited June 27, 2008 by TheReasonIFail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedster00 Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 (edited) What happens if you type E:\ or whatever letter is given to the USB drive in the run windows and try to browse it that way?When you plug in a USB drive, does Windows bring up the little "What do you want Windows to do?" window?Is this a new install of Windows?Any software recently updated or removed?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. Edited June 27, 2008 by speedster00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 What happens if you disable all of your startup applications? there are some that will try and take over usb devices exclusively instead of allowing the OS to handle them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReasonIFail Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Did you disable any services?What does Event Viewer say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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