Hi,

I revisited the Universal Serial Bus Controllers on the Device Manager tab of the system properties. There appear to be 3 devices.

First, I see an entry for AMD 756 PCI to USB Open Host Controller. The device status for the OHC says it is working properly.

Next, there is an entry for the USB Root Hub. The device status for the hub also indicates that it is working properly. I looked at the power properties for the root hub and it showed two different device descriptions. One said USB Storage Adapter AT2 (TPP) with Power Required equal 0 ma (I suppose be cause it is powered by its own wall wart power supply). The other device description was 3 port(s) available also requiring 0 ma I suppose because I got nothing hooked to them. There were no other properties for the USB Root Hub device.

The last device displayed under Universal Serial Bus Controllers is the USB Storage Adapter AT2(TPP) device. The device status for the Storage Adapter also indicates the device is working properly. Thats my USB external drive.

I tried reinstalling the drive by removing the three devices from the Device Manager that appear related to the USB drive: 1) USB Storage Adapter AT2(TPP) under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, 2) Storage Adapter Bridge Module (TPP) under the Hard Disk Controllers, and 3) the WDC WD80 0JB-00JJA0 entry under Disk Drives. However, that appeared to have no effect because on reboot, it just detected and reinstalled those devices when I plugged in the USB drive.

I'm still poking and prodding to no avail.