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I use a shortcut in the taskbar. I pasted this into the target field in properties and got exactly what I wanted. %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:\ Thanks bcastner! kiddpete - I never use the windows key... I'm still stuck in the windows 3.11 for workgroups world... or is it...

Just a minor irritant... every time I launch windows explorer, the My Documents folder expands showing all sub-folders. I have about 40. Does anyone know where I can change this so it does not expand the folder?

Not solved... but resolved. I attached the drive as a slave IDE and copied all my "precious" files to the Maxtor USB drive. I will reformat the drive and return it for replacement. I was up front with SimpleTech about what I had done. They didn't know if what I did caused this or if the board...

I really appreciate you guys hanging in there. bcastner, The only conflict (mental anguish) I have with your software approach is that I put it on my PC at work and it detects the device as unknown device "24". My work machine was purchased with XP Prof, but the company as a whole has not...

Remember, it is specific to the drive, not the PC. If it is possible to "reconfigure" this, then it "should" be possible to do on any machine, any operation system, back to say, WIN98. If I don't get anywhere, I'll start looking for XP programmers.

I don't have the knowledge you two guys have but... " garebo, you assume too much! It's my lack of knowledge that got me here! And because no one has yet told me I can't do it, I am trying to find a way. I am not in a hurry to resolve this because I don't want to lose the data, if possible...

After a good night's sleep... bcastner, your last 2 suggestions are all about the PC. It is, in fact, the drive. My first thought this AM was to take the drive to work and fix it there. Remember, no matter what PC I plug this into, that PC sees this device as "24" with all the settings as...

These are great ideas. I'll mess with them Tuesday night. Thanks all, I will update.

Thank you bcastner. You and I have "talked" about this (last week in the Windows Update forum). All I wanted aty that time was the drivers for the drive, so when I attached it, I'd "have the disk" and load those drivers because it couldn't find any on my system. You missed the part about me...

USBMAN.com had a complete write up on refreshing the USB stack. Via SafeMode I uninstalled (usb only) devices, hubs, controllers including hidden devices. I brought the drive in Friday and attached it to the WIN2000 machine and it detected device "24" and could not find drivers. This drive...

I installed a USP 2.0 PCI card and an external drive on my XP SP2 system and then connected a portable hub to the card. I ran into all sorts of issues where anything I put into the hub, would not be detected. So put the hub aside for later. Then I added another ext drive and started to have...

The different PCI card fixed all issues except 1. One of my ext harddrives (SimpleTech) thinks it is a system device, not a disk... and that is my fault. I will post a help request as a new post.

UPDATE My case was submitted as an issue with Windows Update not detecting old drivers. The response was: Since the USB driver cannot be found in Windows XP, I believe it is a system issue. As a Windows Update Support Professional, I only specialize in Windows Update issues and cannot...

Thank you Mr B. I have done that several different ways in std mode and safe mode. I fear I have killed or corrupted something. Other parts of the article mentions updating the Bios firmware. I have never done that. I purchased my HP Pavilion 521n in 2002. There is nothing in the BIOs that...

The first link is about updating drivers for each device. The problem is the system is calling my external drive and my flashdrive (which is plugged into a 4-port usb 2.0 hub which is plugged into the 5-port 2.0 PCI card I installed)device "24". The system finds no driver and doesn't install...

I will give it a try tonight. EST - USA I am concerned that the driver may be gone altogether, so there is nothing to detect. Again, I will give it a try and post a follow-up.

I had my system scanned by a third party driver company. Yea, I thought it detected a lot of drivers so I'd buy the product. I did... and it found several drivers outdated; ALi, VIA, and some standard microsoft operating system divers (USB, Generic USB Hub, etc). It directed me to windows...

I no longer get new driver detection notification in windows update. Is there something I may have disabled in "services" or some program I uninstalled (backweb)?