Date: 06/16/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: google

I encountered a strange problem when I turned on my computer today. Aside from the disc drives, I noticed some icons were missing from "My Computer," because of some gaps in the icon placement: memory stick, memory card reader, etc.

So, I went into My Computer / Properties / Hardware / Device Manager / USB Controllers. One of the devices had a yellow exclaimation point saying, "code 10" error.

I googled this USB code 10 error problem, but most other people complaining about this problem seemed to be people with a camera and other USB devices, which were not working. Those posts were related, but my USB devices are working fine... I have a USB mouse and a net adaptor, which I've been using since I first bought the computer. I also connected my iPod just for the hell of it. Interestingly, the device manager recognized the iPod and it worked fine too; I even added some songs to it.

Still, the fact that my removable storage devices weren't showing up bothered me, so I tried to update the driver. That did nothing. On another forum someone suggested that I reboot and go into safe mode, then uninstall the faulty USB device, then reboot again. Nothing. In fact, upon rebooting, the faulty USB device shows up as an "unknown device."

How can I fix the "unknown device," and why would this affect my removable storage?

BTW: I have XP, SP2.

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/937870.html