Quake3World

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.

Does anyone know how to fix this USB issue?

we had a laptop that magically disabled all USB
functions in the bios.

check there

windows may be buggin .. try a restore point
or

IF YOU DARE
delete usb function altogether
hardware system properties
and re-boot to see if windows re-installs usb stuff

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'm going to try to repair windows....

Any other ideas would be great.

un-install recently installed programs or windows updates

just a theory but something new is rogering your win install .

Ehhh...

During the repair, Windows would continually get hung up at 34%.

I decided to reinstall Windows and it blue screened twice during a FULL format.

So now I'm zeroing the hard drive with a disk utility and I'll try installing Windows again when it's done.

Pain in my ass... :icon33:

Well the reinstall is complete, totally. Games, Apps. and all. There's nothing like a fresh install of windows to make things right again. :icon8:

I think I'll ghost an image this time.... :icon27:

strange that it bluescreened on the install? after backing iup an image, you might run chkdsk /r and reboot.

Sounds like bad memory to me (the bluescreens during install).

Oeloe wrote:Sounds like bad memory to me (the bluescreens during install).

Or bad sectors, as Underpants said.

No bad sectors...

Everything is working fine now.

There was something about doing a full NTSC format that windows didn't like.

The drive is a RAID 0 stripe. I think there might have been a RAID controller driver issue.

Who knows....

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?

So I guess you'd only repair Windows to recover data and then do a new install. Because it sounds like the repair screws up more shit than it fixes.

Ehhh...

Doesn't seem worth it, if you're still gonna reinstall everything anyway. Windows only takes 30 mins tops to install.

Oh well, it takes all kinds to make the world go round. :icon26: