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USB Devices Not Working (Code 39)
Hi Guys -
Not sure what's changed over the last couple of weeks, but none of my external USB hard-drives or thumb-drives now work.
The same symptoms for my iomega, maxtor & WD external hard drives, and TDK / Transcend thumb-drives: -
- plugin usb drive
- "ba-dong" sound from Windows
- no drive showing in Windows Explorer
- go to Device Manager - yellow icon for usb drive
- uninstall driver
- re-install driver
- "driver is up to date" message (tried online drivers & C:\Windows\winsxs)
- no drive showing in Disk Management
In Device Manager, right clicking the USB drive > Properties > General Tab shows "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"
I've tried all the suggestions on -
How To Fix Error Code 39 (Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware)
Windows 7 - Notices but does not 'see' external usb hard drive
Have tried a System Restore, both from Windows when booted up, and from DVD on startup - System Restore fails each time, some message about Anti Virus maybe running (which didn't make sense when doing a System Restore from Disk)
I've checked there are no Upper / Lower values in the Registry key as per the links above, and also tried copying usbstor.sys / .inf / .pnf from Windows\System32 to Windows\inf.
And have uninstalled usb root hubs from Device Manager (to the pointwhere I only have the keyboard or mouse left, so I can reboot from the start menu)
Any ideas, any ideas at all would be bloody great.....!
Many Thanks,
Darren