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I can't access the data on USB storage devices or camera cards. The USB ports work fine with keyboards and mice, and when I opened the "Safely remove hardware" window I noticed that cards and USB hardware are listed but the generic volumes have no drive letter in parentheses. Despite this I have a USB hard drive plugged in that does work, appearing as drive G:. None of them show up in the Storage section of the Computer Management tool.

Let me know if any additional information is needed.

For the record I'm running Windows XP Home on a laptop I purchased used, though this issue didn't develop until over a full year after I purchased it.

[LaptopNomad]

Move the KB & Mice to the ports that seem to fail and try again.
If it's the same result, a USB HUB could have died. Also it might not be able to supply the power required for external USB storage.

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Originally Posted by LaptopNomad

Move the KB & Mice to the ports that seem to fail and try again.
If it's the same result, a USB HUB could have died. Also it might not be able to supply the power required for external USB storage.

I swapped everything around and every single port works with my external hard drive, but nothing else. I can see other devices are connected but I can't get them to work properly.

In addition, I left an SD card in the card reader and when certain programs launch, such as Opera, a dialog box pops up telling me there is no disk in the drive.