Recently I haven't been able to access any of my USB storage devices (USB jump drive, MP3 Player) from "My Computer".
I can see the device in Device Manager. I went into drive manager and assigned it a new letter, but still no luck. While in Disk Management I can even high light the drive, go to Action, All Tasks, and click Explore and a window of the drive's content will appear on the screen for a breif moment. Then that window closes leaving a new "My Computer" window open on the desktop.
Well I've already checked the BIOS. Everything USB is Enabled and the BIOS even sees the USB Jump Drive. I also tried uninstalling everything USB in the Device Manager and restarting. Everything comes right back the same way it was and I still can't access the Jump Drive.
I think Windows has gone goofy because the system restarts when you tell it to shut down and hangs in some sort of hibernation state when you tell it to restart.
I always opt for the full format. And yeah, ghosting an image is extremely encouraged. Cuts down on reinstall time considerably. I'm sure you already know this though.
Tormentius wrote:A full format does a surface scan and checks for bad sectors. A quick format doesn't do those things and just erases any existing data.
I wrote zeros to the entire drive and did a full surface scan for bad sectors with the drive utility. Everything came up fine.....
I think the RAID and USB drivers were corrupted by the previous Windows repair.
Is it true that using the "repair" function overwrites existing Windows updates on your hard drive with the info on the CD?
Thats the only reason I've personally used it. However, some people seem to find repairing then reinstalling the apps without bothering with a full Windows reinstall worthwhile.
