Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steve Hayes Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-xp,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-7,alt.windows7.general Subject: Re: Losing connection with USB drives Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:50:51 +0200 Organization: Khanya Publications Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <107868i.bcg.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> Reply-To: hayesstw@telkomsa.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:51:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="75874c88f2d51db51172a81d15a7f682"; logging-data="1086187"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+/CMRWcF3jIcHtjlIA0cOuV616YrhTnVw=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ROuTtFGWiZ9nnSTZxMxavb3sw7Q= X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-xp:8311 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:827 On 9 Aug 2025 17:07:52 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote: >Steve Hayes wrote: >> My Windows XP computer has gradually been losing its connection with >> USB drives and the printer, and now seems to have lost contact >> altogether. >> >> Other USB devices, like mouse and keyboard work OK. >> >> For a while rebooting would make it possible to communicate with USB >> drives, and would cause stuck printer pages to print, but now on >> rebooting it shows the printer as offline, and even if I switch it to >> online, it does not print. >> >> Any suggestions? > > What does Disk Management say about the USB drives and what does >Device Manager (use 'Action -> Scan for hardware changes' and 'View -> >Show hidden devices') say about the USB drives and the (USB?) printer >(look at the 'Universal Serial Bus controllers' tree and the 'Disk >Drives' and 'Printer queues' trees)? > > As to general USB troubleshooting, look at Uwe Sieber's USB >utilities at . Thanks very much for the advice. I fear it may be a hardware problem, as when I booted Linux it too could not find any of the USN drives. > > When responding, please crosspost to alt.windows7.general. That's of >course not an XP group, but several people there still use XP or also >use XP. Thanks, I've done so. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk