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flash drive issues
shmappy2004
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my sister brought me her ibm thinkpad notebook. she told me that when she plugs in her ipod, she can't find it in itunes.
i brought it in to work and plugged in one of the flashdrives we have with virus removal software just to see if the problem was a virus or something
i plugged in the drive and windows made the little "beep beep" nose that lets you know when you've plugged something into a usb port, but it the autoplay feature didn't work
i checked "my computer" and found that it wasn't recognising the drive at all. i asked my boss for his opinion, and he told me to check the disk management. it doesn't show up there, either
the device shows up in the device manager as an unknown device, with the name of it, a diskgo flash drive (which i think is kind of weird. it's an "unknown" device, yet windows knows what it is)
it has windows xp pro, corporate edition on it, and i tried downloading SP3, and any other updates, to see if that would work, but had no luck
i've been doing a little online research, but all that i've found is forums posted in '05 concerning issues with SP2, so that doesn't really help me
the system is an imb thinkpad, made in 2003, if that helps at all. 'cause i don't remember when usb 2.0 came out
i brought it in to work and plugged in one of the flashdrives we have with virus removal software just to see if the problem was a virus or something
i plugged in the drive and windows made the little "beep beep" nose that lets you know when you've plugged something into a usb port, but it the autoplay feature didn't work
i checked "my computer" and found that it wasn't recognising the drive at all. i asked my boss for his opinion, and he told me to check the disk management. it doesn't show up there, either
the device shows up in the device manager as an unknown device, with the name of it, a diskgo flash drive (which i think is kind of weird. it's an "unknown" device, yet windows knows what it is)
it has windows xp pro, corporate edition on it, and i tried downloading SP3, and any other updates, to see if that would work, but had no luck
i've been doing a little online research, but all that i've found is forums posted in '05 concerning issues with SP2, so that doesn't really help me
the system is an imb thinkpad, made in 2003, if that helps at all. 'cause i don't remember when usb 2.0 came out
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the only place it recognizes it is in the device manager, and it sees it as an unknown device
i'll give it a try
it's a laptop. and this particular one only has two ports on the left side
it's an ibm thinkpad t42 (i think. don't really know too much about imb computers...)
Try it on a computer that you know it'll work on.
Do you have any powered devices you could try? Like an ext. CD writter or something?
and when i was home, i used my flash drive
you think that it's 1.1?
the laptop might be that old...
and im looking up the system on the ibm website, and i can't find the blippin' model number for the driver search >_<
would be so nice if there was a lable in like neon yellow that said "model number"
haha
ah, yes, we have an external cd drive here at the shop
but it wouldn't recognize my sister's ipod, or two different flash drives.
i have an old 256 MB flash drive. not a darn clue if it's 1.1 or 2.0, though...
gunna try using the old flash drive for the heck of it.
Wouldn't the POST or BIOS screen show it?
EDIT: I just thought a powered device might have more luck. But yeah, if 3 drives don't work, it probably wouldn't matter.
all i have to say about that is oh.. my... god
lol
inside of the screen?
You may be able to identify this by the barcode that contains the same info.
The model of the laptop is T42. The type is what you want, I believe.
typed in a whole bunch of crap that was next to a barcode on the bottom of the thing and each time the website told me that it's an invalid type or whatever
For thinkpads, they have a type number that is on the bottom of the laptop, on a sticker like someone mentioned above.
Check out this link for an example:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/classic-tech/?p=178
Look for something like Type 2630-5TU, they are always a four digit number followed by a dash and a three digit code.
heck if i know, lol. i know nothing about ibm
it says ibm on it, and the logo on start is an ibm logo
i re-imaged the system, and one of the drivers was lenovo, if that helps at all
but, anyway
i reformatted, re-installed the os, and it recognised both the external wireless card/modem thing, and one of the flash drives i was trying to use. so, i think we're good
i've fixed all the driver conflicts but one, which was a usb thing. i used driveragent to find the drivers, and the one for the usb had this huge list of drivers according to which service pack the system is using. so im going to update it after i finish downloading any and all microsoft updates.
let us pray that the darn thing will still work...
when i did the clean install, i used a generic xp pro corporate edition cd, and it took the product key on the bottom of the laptop with no problems, and i was able to activate windows with no issues
i go to install some updates, and windows tells me that i can't 'cause i don't have an authentic/valid/whatever version of windows
so, i did another clean isntall, with another generic xp cd, but this time, it was just xp pro, not xp pro corportate. and i couldn't activate windows over the net for whatever fricken reason, so i called up the stupid activation line
had the automated voice tell me th at it's not authentic, so i have to be transferred to a person.
i explained to the about using the generic xp pro and the xp pro corporate product key, and he's all "oh, don't worry about it, it will work just fine"
fricken liar, he tells me that he can't activate it 'cause the fookin' thing is invalid, and i have to contact the manufacturer of the darn system to get a new one >_<
someone please shoot me now!
[tiny]I'm a nice guy, I swear.[/tiny]
and the second i started my internship, i kinda felt that the school i went to was kind of a waste of money 'cause i learned more on teh job in one day than in the entire 9-month program of the trade school i went to
i don't spend 8 hours waiting for replies anyway, lol. i surf the net looking for answers. i only post threads here for the problems that i cant seem to find any helpful information for from the net
-OR- your sister can get it and then have it installed, assuming she's a student in a university.
and my sister was given the computer as a sort of hand-me-down from her father-in-law, so, i don't really know if she can get the os cds from him, or if he even saved them
im going to try using my... er.. crack cd tomorrow. it's just xp pro, not xp pro corporate, but i won't have to worry about it being recognized as unauthentic or anything
if that doesn't work, then im gunna have to listen to her yell at me about how "every computer of hers that i touch breaks" >_<