My laptop is having problems with reading USB flash drives and recognizing iPod nano.
When I plug in a USB flash drive or iPod, Windows assigns a drive letter, eg. Removable Disk F: but if I try to open in Windows Explorer I get an error eg. :"The disk in Drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"
I've tried different USB sockets on the laptop- same problem. The flash drive and iPod work fine on all other computers so it seems local to this laptop and I can't see any reason to format it.
I am using a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop running XP SP3. To attempt to rectify this problem, I reverted to SP2 using c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
Following this, I was able to access files on the flash drive for a few moments but when I attempted same with the iPod, I got a Windows crash and following the restart am back to square one, with neither flash drive nor IPod being usable except windows XP remains at SP2.
Anyone have any clues to what might be going on?? Thanks for any pointers.
When I plug in a USB flash drive or iPod, Windows assigns a drive letter, eg. Removable Disk F: but if I try to open in Windows Explorer I get an error eg. :"The disk in Drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"
I've tried different USB sockets on the laptop- same problem. The flash drive and iPod work fine on all other computers so it seems local to this laptop and I can't see any reason to format it.
I am using a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop running XP SP3. To attempt to rectify this problem, I reverted to SP2 using c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
Following this, I was able to access files on the flash drive for a few moments but when I attempted same with the iPod, I got a Windows crash and following the restart am back to square one, with neither flash drive nor IPod being usable except windows XP remains at SP2.
Anyone have any clues to what might be going on?? Thanks for any pointers.