I am in the same situation of all and tried it. With your recommendation I
have tried to download kb885222 patch however, it's giving me a error message
"access denied". What could be wrong?

"karen100" wrote:

I have been having the same problem with my Sony TRV70. Device Not Found
when using Firewire. USB works fine, but not the 1394 Firewire connection.
I stumbled across this suggestion yesterday, haven't tried it yet, but will
do so soon. It appears to be an issue with SP2 on WinXP. There is a
download hotfix file. The solution makes sense to me, I don't know why it is
not posted in more places, so many people seem to be having this same
problem. If anyone else has tried this fix, please let the rest of us know!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885222

When I first discovered the problem in October, I tried starting my computer
with my camcorder attached and it caused me to lose a lot of important ntldr
files and other problems. Since I have already had to start over from
scratch after that mess, I am willing to try this fix... I figure I have
nothing to lose at this point.