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Does anyone know if I can delete all of my USB devices and then restart my computer and reload the devices? I think I've done this before but was afraid to do it again.
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piyushsingh 
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Posted 13 December 2008 - 06:57 PM
judemo said:
Does anyone know if I can delete all of my USB devices and then restart my computer and reload the devices? I think I've done this before but was afraid to do it again.
You can disable them , not delete. You can do it from the bios (recommended if you wanna do) easily or disable from the device manager or uninstall the particular drivers. In the last case , you can get back the drivers from the chipset driver disc.
I would also ask that, WHY ?
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Posted 14 December 2008 - 08:28 AM
I will try to explain why. I didn't have enough USB ports so I bought and connected a powered 7 port USB 2.0 hub and connected some of my devices in it. I have an external HD which I had connected in a different port and it was fine but when I plugged it in the hub it now show the drive as being one of my card reader drives. Is there another way to correct this? Thanks for your help. I'm glad I didn't delete everything. When I did this before I did disable things but had forgotten.
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Posted 14 December 2008 - 09:39 AM
Hi, My thoughts were the same as snorg's. I don't see why you can't plug the External Hdd into a working USB port on the computer rather than the Hub. It should recognize it. coastie65
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Posted 14 December 2008 - 10:05 AM
I'm not exactly sure of what you mean by that. If you mean switching the Hdd with something already plugged in to a USB port on the computer, then it shouldn't be a problem. On a side note, depending on the number of USB devices you are running, or trying to run, you want to make sure you have an adequate Power Supply. coastie.
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