I recently reformatted my hard drive (XP), and no longer can recognize my external hard drive (Western Digital, My Book Essential Edition 2.0 - WD6400h1U-00). Been looking everywhere for drivers, and WD doesn't provide them. They supposedly run on standard drivers built into the OS. When I first used the HD to back-up my files it worked fine, but since the reformat it's a no-go. If these drivers are in fact native to the Windows OS, why can I not find them anywhere?

Am I barking up the wrong tree here? Any help would be appreciated, as the HD has a lot of pictures and files I would hate to lose.

Sorry, I should have given you more information. Yes, I did reinstall/reformat Win XP. I installed the drivers provided me by the PC maker (Dell). When I plug in the HD, the computer tells me a new USB element has been detected.

I cannot however see it under My Computer. Using Device Manager, I used the New Hardware Wizard to find and install a driver (Initio Default Controller). I still cannot see the HD anywhere. I tried to find it in the Disk Management Section, but no luck. On the Western Digital website, it states: 'Most WD drives do not include drivers because they use a standard driver built into the operating system. If your driver is built into your operating system or is already installed, and your OS continues to look for a driver, your drive has most likely failed or been damaged and needs to be replaced.' I'm pretty sure that the internal hard drive is not damaged, so I'm tending to believe that it is a driver issue.

Sorry to sound so obtuse, but with my last job of 7 years I was strictly on a Mac, so I'm not as PC savvy as I once was. Again, any help that you can offer would be greatly appreciated. 'Most WD drives do not include drivers because they use a standard driver built into the operating system. If your driver is built into your operating system or is already installed, and your OS continues to look for a driver, your drive has most likely failed or been damaged and needs to be replaced.' I think this is a pretty fair statement by Western Digital. You normally should not need additional drivers to recognize removable storage devices that connect via USB Port. The Windows XP Drivers should be sufficient.

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Please try your Western Digital USB Hard Drive on another PC to make sure this is not a hardware or OS configuration issue. Also, you might want to see if your Western Digital USB External Hard Drive has a slot for a DC power adapter that plugs into the wall.

One of the more common situations of advanced external USB device failure is lack of power. While it is true that many USB devices can be powered directly off of a PC's USB bus or a USB Hub, this is often not the case with high power devices such as Audio Cards, Hard Drives or CD ROM Drives. If you have an external USB Hard Drive, you will most likely have to give it more power (via a DC Adapter) than your bus or hub provides alone. One last question, how are your other USB Devices doing on the same PC? Have you checked on the Microsoft Update site to see if you can get more recent Chipset drivers for your Motherboard? You mentioned previously that you had installed drivers provided by your PC maker (Dell), but sometimes it is possible to install only part of the drivers provided by a PC maker (such as printer and sourd) and overlook some of the more critical ones like the Motherboard Chipset Drivers.

I have a very simular problem. On a desktop, I am using the same operating system as always, XP Pro with Svc. Today, I attempted to connect my Western Digital My Passport WDBAAA3299ABK and the system will not recognize it either in Explore or Disk Management. I was also advised by Western Digital to obtain the usb drivers from Microsoft. I search the support site at microsoft.com but could not locate any drivers to download. I tried a second and older My Passport drive with the same results.

I tried three different USB ports, one on the front and two on the back of the Desktop. Both the My Passport dirves install and show in my Win 7 64 bit laptop so I am sure the drives and cords are OK. I am not certain, but I think something is draining the power from the USB HUBs on your computer. I just looked at one of the Product Guides/Advertisements for a WD My Passport drive and it said: USB 2.0 interface Powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed. An optional cable is available for the few computers that limit power from the USB port. I think you might consider trying to get the optional power cable.

While it is true that your computer should be able to power the drive without the optional power adapter, it looks like something else is eating up the power. The URL I visited is here. I had the same issue. I purchased a 2 TB WD Elements External HD.

Used it on one Dell PC and the USB driver loaded perfectly. Completed my HDD backup and moved the external drive to my second Dell PC. System recognized the new device and loaded the Initio Default Controller. I uninstalled and reinstalle the device several times with the same result. When I read a response further down this chain that discussed connecting as an unpowered device I left my connected, unplugged the external power supply to the device, waited 10 seconds, reconnected the power, and Windows then recognized the device as a WD External USB Drive. I think the order you make the connections are important, apparently power connection should be last. TB player, just ONE 'sillly question.for you to answer here?

But, first, I'll do a bit of 'cut-n-paste' here.so that I hope you can spot 'where' you went wrong? Then, I will tell where you DID go wrong. 'I recently reformatted my hard drive (XP), and no longer can recognize my external hard drive.' Okay, now, my Question...' Did you bother re-installing the MOTHERBOARD drivers, namely the USB 'drivers' when you had finished that REFORMAT? Jannat Tv Serial Actress. ' Your EXTERNAL HARD-DRIVE.runs on a USB connection, right?

Windows Xp Professional 64 Bit Download Iso Deutschland there. In a DELL computer? Where can you get that USB driver?

Let me guess!?! I don't know, where would you look for them? I had the same issue. I purchased a 2 TB WD Elements External HD. Used it on one Dell PC and the USB driver loaded perfectly.

Completed my HDD backup and moved the external drive to my second Dell PC. System recognized the new device and loaded the Initio Default Controller. I uninstalled and reinstalle the device several times with the same result. When I read a response further down this chain that discussed connecting as an unpowered device I left my connected, unplugged the external power supply to the device, waited 10 seconds, reconnected the power, and Windows then recognized the device as a WD External USB Drive. I think the order you make the connections are important, apparently power connection should be last.

I'm curious to know, if there is a 'well' of.inf driver files that I can draw from a good source somewhere so that I can have my XP Machine see the USB device. The wizard is not successfully installing the device (which used to work fine, but now it doesn't even show up in Disk Management). I know that the HDD is not the issue, because the HDD worked on a different computer. For some reason XP's USB driver installation wizard isn't working. Can someone help with a.inf file I can use for my USB Device?

This topics in this section describe the class drivers, generic client driver, and the parent composite driver that are provided by Microsoft. Microsoft-provided USB drivers for controllers and hubs Microsoft provides these set of drivers: • For USB host controllers and hubs. For more information, see.

You can develop a custom host controller driver that communicates with the USB host controller extension (UCX) driver. For more information, see. • For handling common function logic for USB devices. For more information, see. • For supporting Type-C connectors. For more information, see. Other Microsoft-provided USB drivers Device setup class Microsoft-provided driver and INF Windows support Description USB Usbccgp.sys Usb.inf Windows 8.1 Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Usbccgp.sys is a parent driver for composite devices that supports multiple functions.

For more information, see. Biometric WudfUsbBID.dll WudfUsbBIDAdvanced.inf Windows 8.1 Windows 8 Microsoft supports USB biometric devices (fingerprint readers) by providing the Windows Biometric Framework. Media Transfer Protocol Devices Wpdusb.sys (Obsolete) Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 Windows XP. Microsoft provides the Wpdusb.sys driver to manage portable devices that support the Media Transfer Protocol. USBDevice Winusb.sys Winusb.inf Windows 8.1 Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) Winusb.sys can be used as the USB device's function driver instead of implementing a driver. Microsoft-provided USB device class drivers Microsoft provides drivers for several USB device classes approved by USB-IF.

These drivers and their installation files are included in Windows. They are available in the Windows System32 DriverStore FileRepository folder. Related topics.