anynone help(again)? my laptop cant read usb devices(including its built in card reader)?

Question

toshiba portege 3500
windows xp for tablet pc

ive removed the USB devices in device manager and reinstalled them but it still cant recognize usb devices like flash drives, external drives and everything else except the USB mouse.

it detects cards and flash drives but as "not formatted" (the flask drives work with other pcs wino winxp...

i would do a fresh install of windows xp(pro or home) but i dont want to lose the tablet pc software that came with it.

Answer 1

If you have tried all the alternatives and you dont want to reformat then I would suggest running a system fix. You boot off of the windows disc and instead of reformatting you have windows rewrite its core files and drivers. You wont lose any current software. Anther thought would be to download the latest usb drivers from the manufacture. Good luck.

Answer 2

Check your Device Manager to see if your USB drivers are showing. You can open Device Manager by double-clicking on the System icon in Control Panel, choosing the Hardware tab, and clicking Device Manager. If there are Yellow caution signs then there's something wrong. They might be shot, and a re-install would do nothing.



Consider buying a PCMCIA USB card if you wish to keep the laptop. That or you can send it in to Toshiba.

Answer 3

suitable SD and micro SD ought to all artwork positive (offering you have the mSD adapter). inspite of the shown fact that some card readers are somewhat fussy with SDHCs, i've got had a minimum of two circumstances whilst the computing gadget in simple terms did no longer know an SDHC card, to my extensive inflammation.

Answer 4

The drivers are not installed. Reinstall them with drivers should do it.