microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics

After you did the inplace upgrade of XP did you reinstall the motherboard
drivers? While it doesn't always happen that the MB drivers get dumped or
damaged, you should download and reinstall all drivers after an inplace
upgrade to make sure that the drivers didn't get replaced when you did the
upgrade.

Go to the computer manufacturer's website and find your model. Go to the
driver's/software page of the site and find your drivers.

And, of course, you have totally eradicated the virus by using appropriate
software. Run more than one antivirus scanning program to verify that all
has been removed.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ -
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/ -
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner are a few of the available free
scanners.


"GopalKrishn" wrote in message
news:4F0B7564-0024-4290-A5AA-291589B43506@microsoft.com...
> Thank you all.!
> But doing all.. still the device is not been shown under WINDOWS
> EXPLORER..!
>
>
> I would like to give a brief history of my PC which i feel would assist u
> in
> helping me.
>
> My PC is a year old..n last week i found tht it has been affected by
> virus..after a virus scan, i found tht is has affected few dll files in
> system32..n automatically my antivirus software removed(deleted) few
> important dll files..consequently i...
> 1.Coud not change the system time..(it said the file ur tryin gto access
> is
> removed or moved into different location)
> 2.Could not open the Regedit...(it said the file you are tryin gto access
> is
> removed or moved into different location)
> 3..
> n things like tht..
> So i thought i should re-install the OS.. But i did not re-install a fresh
> copy..instead i used the UPGRADE option in it..!
> After doing so everything seemed fine....i could change time..open
> regedit..n all looked going well...!
> And for the information... before Upgrading, i have seen the description
> something like "Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced Controller..." under
> Enhanced Controllers..!
> But Now ITS MISSING..!
>
> Whats its showing now is..
> I have an option "SERIAL BUS CONTROLLERS" in DEVICE MANAGER..
> under this i have..
>>>Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller.
>>>Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
>>>Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
>>>USB Root Hub
>>>USB Root Hub
>>>USB Root Hub
>
> Thats it..!
> Before i had something like.. "Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced
> Controller...". with port number n all..!
>
> please let me know how to get back to my old state.. i mean..how can i
> make
> the description appearring in there..?.. what does it mean in my case..
> why
> is it not showing now?
> Hope this would assit u in helping me..!
> Thank you..!
>
>
>
> "LVTravel" wrote:
>
>> Sometime when a drive is plugged in the system will attempt to assign a
>> drive to the new device a letter that is already assigned to another
>> device
>> or to a mapped network drive. When you open Windows Explorer, what are
>> your
>> drive letters that show?
>>
>> If you have A: (Floppy), C:(main system drive), and D (CD/DVD drive) this
>> probably would not be your situation but you can try the below check
>> anyhow
>> on the D: drive.
>>
>> Any other drives (D: to Z:) try to change the drive letter. Right click
>> on
>> My Computer. Left click on Manage, Disk Management. In the Window that
>> appears it will have 3 panes. In the bottom right pane, find any drive
>> above C: and right click on the drive description. A window will appear
>> with the words "Change drive letter and paths". Click on that and then
>> click Change. Use the dropdown letter box to change the letter of the
>> drive
>> to a higher letter that was unused when you looked in Windows Explorer.
>> Ok
>> out.
>>
>> Close out of all programs and then plug in the HDD again. Open Windows
>> Explorer again and see if the drive letter appears. If it appears, you
>> can
>> then either leave the letter the same or change the HDD's letter to an
>> unused letter and change the original device (that you had just changed
>> to
>> free the drive letter) back to it's original letter.
>>
>> You must plug the drive into the same USB port each time or you stand the
>> chance of the same thing happening again when it attempts to install the
>> device and assign it a drive letter..
>>
>> There may be others with other suggestions that will also work.
>>
>> Hope this helps, please let us know.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "GopalKrishn" wrote in message
>> news:A013957B-84D9-490B-8034-C5BF66E22E6C@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have got a portable hard disk..which is 40GB in size.. the problem is
>> > my
>> > system is not detecting the device...
>> >
>> > I have installed windows XP, with SP2.
>> >
>> > The USB ports are working fine with PEN DRIVES n other devices..however
>> > its
>> > not detecting this HARD DRIVE although the HARD DRIVE was/is working in
>> > other
>> > systems...!
>> >
>> > Plz help me out..
>> >
>> > THANK YOU!
>> >
>>
>>
>>