USB Hard Drive

[Rich Clark]

I have an XP machine with a USB hard drive caddy.

XP auto-detects USB device (Mass Storage Device) and the
inserted HDD....Great

Try to read data from the drive, ERROR - "Un-recognised
File structure"
Also system hang-ups a plenty for any windows operation
that wants to access the drive.

Plug caddy into win 98SE machine everything great!

Caddy drive is FAT32 while c: drive is NTFS, could this be
the problem?

Removed all USB devices in device manager then auto-detect
but OS results in 4 instances of the same device (USB root
Hub) being installed again!?
Windows Help says remove all, then auto-detect to solve,
but this does not work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've got to the
stage of going round and round in circles.

Kind Regards

:(

[Peter Harris]

I dont know if it applies to you but I fixed a number of USB issues with
storage devices by installing the MS USB patch on WWW.USBMan.com

Peter Harris

"Rich Clark" > wrote in message
...
> I have an XP machine with a USB hard drive caddy.
>
> XP auto-detects USB device (Mass Storage Device) and the
> inserted HDD....Great
>
> Try to read data from the drive, ERROR - "Un-recognised
> File structure"
> Also system hang-ups a plenty for any windows operation
> that wants to access the drive.
>
> Plug caddy into win 98SE machine everything great!
>
> Caddy drive is FAT32 while c: drive is NTFS, could this be
> the problem?
>
> Removed all USB devices in device manager then auto-detect
> but OS results in 4 instances of the same device (USB root
> Hub) being installed again!?
> Windows Help says remove all, then auto-detect to solve,
> but this does not work.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've got to the
> stage of going round and round in circles.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> :(