Player not detecting

[longside1]

Hi guys

Im running windows xp and all of a sudden it wont detect my player. When I connect the player the normal windows connection sound stutters and then stops but does not recognise my player, no error message or anything. When I unplug the player I get the windows disconnect sound as if the device was connected??

I have tried my player on another pc with the same usb cable and it works fine, I have also tried connecting my digi camera to my pc and that is detected so I know their is nothing wrong with my pc??

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks guys!

[Step666]

Could it possibly be corrupted USB drivers or something?

Have you tried plugging the player into a different port on the computer?

[belly917]

Another possibility is that windows sees the drive, but for some reason stopped giving it a drive letter.

If you're in windows XP professional goto control panel-->Administrative Tools-->Computer management and then click on disk management under storage. See if your player shows up under there and that it has a drive letter.

If you don't see it here, then you probably have a driver, usb (port/cable) or player problem like Step666 mentioned above

[Assimalyst]

I've had the same experience intermitently. In my case it was just not showing the drive letter, not sure why.

Anyway, I've always been able to resolve it by right clicking on 'My Computer', selecting 'Properties', then select the 'Hardware' tab and click 'Device Manager' button. This gives a list of all your hardware, scroll to the bottom, right click 'Universal Serial Bus controllers' and select 'Scan for hardware changes'.

Your device should now be listed as a drive in 'My Computer'.

HTH.

[longside1]

Problems sorted, the tick box wasn't selected for my player under the USB section of device manager. Dont know how that happened cos I didnt untick it?? Anyway thanks guys!