USB hard drives/thumb drives to work

deltatechx

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I just recently built a new system running an Intel Q9550 quad core 8 GB of ram and Vista Home Premium x64. Everything works flawlessly except for connecting external hard drives and thumb drives through the usb port. I've tried multiple hard drives/thumb drives on multiple ports on the front and back with it working only once for the thumb drive. Usually Vista keeps sounding the device connect and device disconnect dongs for a few minutes and then every once in a while says the drive needs to be formatted, but the drives work fine on my Laptop that's running Vista Home Premium 32-bit. Is this a common problem with x64 or is there something wrong with my system?

thanx
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel Q9550 @ 3.44GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
    Memory
    4x2GB G.Skill PC8500
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI HD4850 and PowerColor HD4850 crossfired
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell E228WFP 22" (DVI) and Samsung 46" 1080p LCD (HDMI)
    Screen Resolution
    Dell - 1680x1050 Samsung - 1920x1080
    PSU
    Rosewill 750 watt
    Cooling
    air
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    20 mb cable
when I hook the usb thumb drive to the usb port on my printer, Vista recognizes it and lets me see the files on the drive, it also lets me copy a file to it but then freezes after it finishes copying (the copy window has a full progress bar and say "about 0 seconds remaining".
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel Q9550 @ 3.44GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
    Memory
    4x2GB G.Skill PC8500
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI HD4850 and PowerColor HD4850 crossfired
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell E228WFP 22" (DVI) and Samsung 46" 1080p LCD (HDMI)
    Screen Resolution
    Dell - 1680x1050 Samsung - 1920x1080
    PSU
    Rosewill 750 watt
    Cooling
    air
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    20 mb cable
I'd say to do the following:

1. Check your bios for settings related to USB e.g. USB speed (Full Speed/High Speed), and change them , try, then change them back etc...
2. Install the latest Chipset INF utility for your motherboard from your motherboard's manufacturer downloads section.
3. Check your internal connections on the motherboard. You might have misplaced the USB front connectors.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Limneos
    CPU
    Intel Core2Duo E4500 2.2GHz
    Motherboard
    Asus P5LD2-X/1333
    Memory
    2GB 800Mhz Kingston DDR2
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia 8500GT
And try removing half your RAM and seeing if that is an issue - some mobos are having major issues when using 4 sticks of RAM as opposed to 2 (be sure to remove two that don't affect DDR, btw).
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
    Manufacturer/Model
    The Beast Model V (homebrew)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
    Motherboard
    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
    Memory
    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
    Screen Resolution
    2 * 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
    Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
    2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
    Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
    PSU
    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
    Case
    ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
    Cooling
    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared)
    Internet Speed
    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
  • Operating System
    Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo ThinkPad E545
    CPU
    AMD A6-5350M APU
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Radeon HD (Embedded)
    Sound Card
    Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Lenovo 15" Matte
    Screen Resolution
    1680 * 1050
    Hard Drives
    INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
    PSU
    Lenovo
    Case
    Lenovo
    Cooling
    Lenovo
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared) | Synaptics TouchPad
    Keyboard
    Lenovo
    Internet Speed
    AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex
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