On Jul 4, 8:00*am, Steve <steve.ro...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > I have a SanDisk 16gb cruzer that is easily recognized in my XP Pro
> > > machines and was for a brief while on my *2 Vista Ultimate machines..
> > > A few weeks ago, my 2 Vista Machines stop recognizing it. * If I goto
> > > device manager, I can see it listed as a disk drive. To get it to work
> > > I scroll down to USB Mass Storage Device and disable/enable it and it
> > > pops up and all is good. *If I look in Computer Mgmt /Disk Mgmt, it
> > > shows up as unallocated so it does not get assigned a driver letter.
> > > If I boot the PC with the usb drive inserted it works fine. *I called
> > > Sandisk technial support and they said it was *"Vista problem" because
> > > the drive works in XP and in a friend's computer also running Vista.
> > > Can one delete all USB devices in Vista without doing a complete
> > > reload of Vista. *Maybe setting all USB paramters back to that after a
> > > clean install would help ?
> > > Any help would be much appreciated. * Steve
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> > Try this. *Worked for me.
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> > It may not be the problem you're having but worth a try
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> Thanks for the suggestions...I tried both these suggestions and many
> more and still no luck. *One suggested deleting th eUSB and USBSTORE
> keys in the registry. I changed permissions so I could do that and I
> still cannot delete those keys. * I put mys sandisk 16gb stick in
> another pc runnig vista and it recognized it. *I tried a frien'ds 32gb
> stick in my 2 pc's... no luck on either pc. * Very baffling! *I hate
> have to reload windows on my 2 machines that otherwise work just
> fine. * Any other suggestions?
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> - Show quoted text - I figured out what the problem was. I installed Acronis True Image
Home 2009 on both of my Vista machines about a month ago. That was
about the time my memory sticks stopped being recognized on these
machines. Once I uninstalled it and installed a new build of this
software, everything was working fine.
Steve