Glenn,
This may sound daft as the Dell machine is only six months old but does it
support USB 2 Or USB 1. you may have to go to the Dell website and track
down the latest set of USB drivers that they have. Your flash drive should
work with both,  XP pro will support both standards. On older versions of
windows you need to load the drivers that came with/or download to enable
the drive to work, I had to do this for my 98se machine but my XP pro laptop
recognised it and worked without problem

The camera will have been supplied with a disk that would have all the
software and drivers to enable it to work that is why you are not having any
problems with that.

Hope this helps

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Bennington" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 2:13 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] flash drive


> Hello List,
> Having a problem with what should be the easiest device ever, A 512 MB
flash drive. 3 different drives, Ive tried, 2 PNY and one Memorex .
> 6 month old Dell computer , running XP pro. Keeps coming up as "unknown
USB device"
> This is on a friends computer, I tried 2 of the drives on mine also
running XP pro and they are recognized and worked right away.
> appear under disk drives in device mgr. on mine where they should be,
> On hers comes under USB controllers as unknown device.
> Tried booting with device in drive, came up "new hardware recognized and
working", thought I was good to go,,,10 seconds later "Unknown USB device"
error again ,, no drive letter under My Computer.. tried all 4 different
ports to no avail.
> This was done under administrator account.
> Digital camera USB works on same ports...
> Any ideas what I'm missing ??????  Thanks in advance
>
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