USB ports showing as Drives

[Computician]

Hello,

A strange problem. My desktop PC is showing all the USB ports on my machine as removable drives in "My computer" and also assigning a letter to each. Although nothing is attached to the USB ports. Ideally, whenever a device is attached to USB, only then, it should show as a drive/storage, with a letter......
The ports are working fine and anything attached to any por works fine....the remaining drives for the un-used ports just sit there with their drive letters.

Can anyone provide a solution. My PC is HP pavilion 1030n. P4 3Ghz 512Ram

Thanks

 

[Ploper001]

Try upgrading the chipset drivers for you PC (download from HP's website), they should include drivers for the USB Controller also, so it may fix your problem.

 

[Computician]

Ploper,

I have tried almost every trick in the book. Talked to the HP customer tech support. They are useless bunch of people. I my experience, whenever I contacted them for some problem, they were unable to solve.
Drivers are updated to the lattest.

Regards,

 

[wahnula]

Question: Do you have a flash memory card reader attached to or integrated into the PC?

Tony

 

[Computician]

Wahnula,

Yes, I have reader ports in front panel of my machine. But, its the USB ports, that are showing up. Resaon, when I attach a device to any of the USB port, one of the drives showing (in my computer) becomes active and accessible (the attached device).

Regards,

C

 

[wahnula]

Try this:

http://microsoft-autoplay-repair-wizard.en.softonic.com/ie/44330

 

[spudnuts]

I have a 7-in-1 memory card reader installed on my PC and it shows the same thing. Every slot on the reader is shown as a separate drive and they are not accessable until I stick in a memory card.

It's no big deal, unless your running out of drive letters and that is very doubtful.

Information Assurance,CCNP,CST