fdixon

OK, now onto the HP nx9010 laptop which has never recognised any USB drives or ipods ever. This time straight into device manager, delete 3 USB root hubs under USB, then the 3 controllers. Now scan for hardware chnages, and pronto both the drives now work. I think I might spend the rest of the night plugging and unplugging the USB drives - love the sound. Then I might send microsft or hp an invoice for 20wasted hours - no just kidding.

ross, thanks my usb drive being seen as unknown device is now fixed. As you said, I added the usb-disableselectsuspend-key, set it to 1, rebooted the computer - still no action. Then in device manager, I deleted all the USB root hubs then the controllers, and then asked for a scan for hardware changes. The mp3 and USB drive now work ok. Now just have to find the installation disks for all the software I just uninstalled.