I'm having the same problem but I'm going to add a few things to the mix, 1
keep in mind that this is happening on 3 XP Pro machines that were all
working a few months ago. 2 I have several external hard drives in enclosures
and on each one of them when I plug them into a machine the install new
equipment wizard comes up and says it found new hardware. Than I follow the
prompts it asks me to check on line I say yes, I also try search window
folders, CD's and the works, and every time it wants to install the software
for "USB-ATA/ATAPI Bridge" which ever option I select the result is the same
either it tells me it cant find the drivers or I get this message "The
drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)" Also the drives are not
showing up in either windows explorer, Device manager or in Computer
Management so I cannot change drive letters if there is no device. Like I
said before these devices are Maddog USB Hard drive enclosures, 3 of them all
less than 1 year old, 3 Generic USB Hard drive enclosures 6 months old, 2 USB
to IDE & SATA cables for Data transfer 2- USB 2.0 to SATA cables for data
transfer. All these devices work on friends XP Pro & Home computers so I know
the drives or cables are good I have a USB Camera that works fine it either
of my USB Poets so I know that the ports are good I have a USB printer and
scanner that also work on these same USB Ports. Now all of my USB Hard drive
enclosures and cables stopped working after I downloaded several XP Updates
but I do not remember which 1's they were because I do not do Windows Updates
every week its more like every several months I'm 99% positive about this
because I have a old machine that someone gave to me that has XP Pro with SP1
only on it and the drives work fine on it than I Installed SP2 it still
worked fine than I Installed ALL, over 100, updates and than the drives
stopped working. I have been trying to resolve this problem for the last
several months with no success than I saw this post with the same problem I
have and I figured I would give you a try. Do you think that this is
something that you can help with?
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