As soon as I plug my Carbon into the USB port it is recognized by XP. You might check to see if you have something blocking access. It should be recognized as a portable harddrive and you'll have a popup to choose what program you'd like to open when you plug it in. It appears to work fine with XP Home and Pro.
Try plugging it into a different USB port and see what happens.
I trying to use my Rio carbon with windows XP and it will not recognise it correctly. It does not load the correct driver. has anyone else had the same problem,and if so what have you done to correct it?
Ta
Wayne

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