I have a Mikomi 8Gb usb pen drive . I am using XP but although the new hardware detects the drive it cannot locate the driver and so it does not work. Any suggestions/

Try a totally independant PC away from the ones you tried....if no go drive has failed and data will be lost sorry.

HP USB Disk/Drive Format Utility is a Windows based software
used to format drives to FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partition types.


1. Download this tool:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4040651/HPUSBFW_2.2.3_MASTER.exe

2. Format pen drive

(Before removing USB flash drive click on the Safely Remove
Hardware icon and then click on USB flash drive you want to remove)

You can try using another usb port, or it might be that other things conncected to the usb are interfering with it. Try disconnecting things attatched to other usb ports (check in the back of the computer) but be sure that they're not important before you go ripping out cords.

first go to my computer propery then hardware then device manager then go t ousb controller uninstall all usb drivers from there then just right click on any driver then click on scan for hardware changes then it automatic install usb drivers .
Connectyour pen drive to usb port check all port.
then if its not working check with other usb device is working with usb port?

reinstall driver

What Operating SYstem are you using? XP or Vista? An what service pack? (Check this by pressing the Windows key + the Paue/Break key together)

Firstly, if you are plugging the pen drive in to the front USB, try the USB ports at the back. Many times this works.

Secondly, It's a known problem that XP with SP1 doesn't detect many pen drives correctly.

If that's the case, download service Pack 3 from microsoft's site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspxFamilyID=5B33B5A8-5E76-401FBE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en

HTH,
Deboo

Is the hardware detected? If so, try formatting.
If not, you can use it as a keyholder or a door stop.
Good luck

You must install a "Driver" for it to work under Win98, go to the manufacturers web site and download the driver and install.

Please see thw following for using usb drives, ipods, etc. in Windows 98.

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php


You can try to find vendor-specific drivers for each and every pen drive you use, but this is the mass storage driver so it will be one driver for all of them just like Windows xp.

change ports, using another usb port will force a new hardware check. if still not work try to use it on another pc. maybe you have a faulty one.