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Re: Losing connection with USB drives

From Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-xp, comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject Re: Losing connection with USB drives
Date 2025-08-09 17:07 +0000
Organization NOYB
Message-ID <107868i.bcg.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink)
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Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> 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 <www.uwe-sieber.de>.

  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.

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Losing connection with USB drives Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-08-09 18:36 +0200
  Re: Losing connection with USB drives Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-08-09 17:07 +0000
    Re: Losing connection with USB drives Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-08-15 10:50 +0200
      Re: Losing connection with USB drives Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-15 17:03 -0400
        Re: Losing connection with USB drives "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-16 00:46 +0100
        Re: Losing connection with USB drives NY <me@privacy.net> - 2025-08-16 15:02 +0100
          Re: Losing connection with USB drives "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-16 16:24 +0100
            Re: Losing connection with USB drives Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-08-16 19:36 +0200
              Re: Losing connection with USB drives "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-08-16 18:45 +0100
              Re: Losing connection with USB drives NY <me@privacy.net> - 2025-08-16 21:14 +0100
              Re: Losing connection with USB drives Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-16 16:50 -0400

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