Did you ask Microsoft? If so or used their update driver button, you didn't accomplish getting drivers for your hardware.
It's a common problem which you only need to find and install the drivers to fix (if they exist.)
Bob
They stopped being recognized when I upgraded to XP Pro x64, so I assumed it was a driver issue. I updated everything, to no avail. I checked the internal connections, they are ok. The card reader is internal and connected internally with USB. It recognizes my printer (on every port), it's hooked up via USB, but it won't display USB flash drives under removable storage in 'My Computer'.
Everything in Device Manager checks out, I uninstalled and reinstalled all the drivers. The drives show up there, but don't display in 'My Computer'.
I've downloaded Tweak UI, and question marks (?) show up by all the drives except my hard disk, floppy drive and DVD drive.
How can I access these drives if they don't dispaly anywhere?

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