USB Stick Problem

USB Stick Problem
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KickMe @ 24th Oct 05:59PM:
USB Stick Problem

I was coming out of sleep mode on my laptop and plugged in a 2 GB USB stick. I immediately got the dreaded blue screen of death, so I rebooted Win 7.
The problem here is now Explorer doesn't recognize that stick or assign a drive letter to it. The Disk Management Utility lists a device and drive letter but I am unable to format it or change drive letters as I get an "unexpected error" message. The OS makes the appropriate sound when plugging in the stick.
I have tried removing the "USB mass storage device" from device manager and reformatting the stick on my desktop machine to no avail (this stick works perfectly on my desktop computer).
My guess here is that there is a driver or file that identifies this stick and has gotten corrupted when I plugged it in and received the BSOD.
Does anyone know what to do to make the stick readable on the laptop? (Have a 2nd identical stick that works just fine on the laptop).
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HRM @ 24th Oct 08:08PM:
Re: USB Stick Problem

did you try a different USB port? They are indpendent for things and it may re-recognise it if you have another port, especially if it is on a differnt hub.
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KickMe @ 24th Oct 11:09PM:
Re: USB Stick Problem

said by HRM :

did you try a different USB port? They are indpendent for things and it may re-recognise it if you have another port, especially if it is on a differnt hub.

Yes I tried another port on other side of the laptop and got the same results.
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Mister_E @ 26th Oct 08:34PM:
Re: USB Stick Problem

I don't run Win 7 (or Vista - using XP), but you might want to check device manager for some other devices related to the USB Stick - they're usually hidden devices under Disk Drives, and Storage Volumes as well as the USB Mass storage under USB devices.

In XP, either setting an environment variable or running the following command from a command prompt will get Device Manager to display all the hidden devices:

Set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

and then running device manager and enabling the option to show hidden devices.
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