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Windows XP stopped recognizing external USB Drives

My Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 no longer recognizes my external USB hard drives.
I strongly suspect that Service Pack 3 may have something to do with it, but there are no "fixes" posted for this issue, so perhaps it is something else.
I tried swapping cables with known good ones.
I tried booting with the drives already turned on and connected.
I tried connecting the turned on drives after booting.
I tried turning on the already connected drives after booting.
I tried turning the connected drives off then on again.

None of the above have had any effect.

Do you have any suggestions?

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There is a Windows fix for this. Windows offers a manual registry step by step instruction but here is their Automatic Fix it. Good luck and hope this solves your problem. Take Care!
Greg

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196#fixit4me

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