USB device not recognized:
Try reconnecting the device. If Windows does not recognize it, replace the device.
Anybody out there know what to do? All of a sudden we can't upload photos from the Pentax Optio 450 anymore. Are they expecting us to replace the camera, fergossake? Sickening. Totally helpless. Called our geek, and he's promised to get back to us.
Update: After many wrong turns, we discovered that the little prongs on the camera where you plug in the USB cable had been damaged. Solution: Card reader. Done.
No, don't replace the camera. Try rebooting Windows and if that doesn't work, try reinstalling Windows. The camera worked before, it is fine. Windows doesn't always work fine.
Posted by: mog | January 07, 2005 at 12:20 AM
Just joking -- sorta -- re replacing camera. As a control, I tried my fall-back camera, which works fine. Looks like it may be the cable?
Posted by: Sissy Willis | January 07, 2005 at 06:03 AM
Cable + mouse + flash drive? I don't think so.
Posted by: Mitch | March 29, 2005 at 10:15 PM
Hey, Mitch: It turned out to be the prongs in the camera where the cable plugs in. They were bent. Solution: Use card reader instead.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | March 30, 2005 at 05:36 AM
i have usb flash drive and i using win xp when i connect the flash drive it say usb device not recognized . Please help me
Posted by: martin | July 17, 2005 at 10:45 AM
Blieve me or not other people had this problem and in some forum i read that if u leave u'r computer off and take out the power sockets (very imp) and leave it like this for about an hour all u'r USB ports will work fine
Iam having the same problem........ i'll try this with my comp and ee if my apple ipod works fine then
Give it a try..........no harm i guess
Posted by: Zain | March 11, 2006 at 01:44 PM
please help..
i have problem that when i insert my usb 2.0 card reader(SDMINI/SD/MMC/RS-MMC/T-FLASH), the error (usb device not recognized) pops up.
Posted by: amit | October 13, 2006 at 07:06 AM
Amit: I don't have a specific answer for you -- am no expert and managed to solve my own problem only after google searching and trying different things . . .
Here's what I recommend to you: Type "usb 2.0 card reader device not recognized" in a google search and go on from there.
Best of luck.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | October 13, 2006 at 08:22 AM