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  • Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware".......

    From james@nospam.com@1:124/5013 to All on Thu Jan 31 19:16:25 2019
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    From: james@nospam.com
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    Subject: Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware".......
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    Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware" thing for every new
    flashdrive I plug in? Even if it's an identical flash drive, it does
    that. For example I bought two IDENTICAL SanDisk 32gb drives. XP had to
    go thru this process for BOTH drives, not just the first one. WHY?

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    From: "JT" <JT@spam-me-not.invalid>
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    Subject: Re: Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware".......
    Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 02:15:04 +0000 (UTC)
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    james@nospam.com wrote:

    Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware" thing for every new flashdrive I plug in? Even if it's an identical flash drive, it does
    that. For example I bought two IDENTICAL SanDisk 32gb drives. XP had
    to go thru this process for BOTH drives, not just the first one. WHY?

    Each flash drive has a unique identifier. Even if they're the exact
    same

    make and model. I assume you do not get the "Found New Hardware" with

    subsequent insertions of the flash drives, just the first time...

    correct?

    If you see that message every time then something else is wrong.

    HTH

    JT

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    Subject: Re: Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware".......
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    james@nospam.com wrote:
    Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware" thing for every new flashdrive I plug in? Even if it's an identical flash drive, it does
    that. For example I bought two IDENTICAL SanDisk 32gb drives. XP had to
    go thru this process for BOTH drives, not just the first one. WHY?



    USB devices which have serial numbers, the
    serial number alerts the OS to the fact that
    an entry already exists for the device.

    When a USB device doesn't have a serial number,
    the OS will pop up that dialog each time, as
    a form of punishment. Even moving the device
    from Port 5 to Port 6 on your PC, could cause
    the dialog to pop up again.

    And while you would think having a serial number
    for each device makes sense, the level of
    compliance with that requirement, wasn't
    all that good in the past.

    Based on capacity, a 32GB device should be modern
    enough to have a serial number. And they should
    be distinguishable from one another.

    Paul
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    From: james@nospam.com
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    Subject: Re: Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware".......
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    On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 02:15:04 +0000 (UTC), "JT" <JT@spam-me-not.invalid>
    wrote:

    james@nospam.com wrote:

    Why does XP keep doing the "Found New Hardware" thing for every new
    flashdrive I plug in? Even if it's an identical flash drive, it does
    that. For example I bought two IDENTICAL SanDisk 32gb drives. XP had
    to go thru this process for BOTH drives, not just the first one. WHY?

    Each flash drive has a unique identifier. Even if they're the exact
    same

    make and model. I assume you do not get the "Found New Hardware" with

    subsequent insertions of the flash drives, just the first time...

    correct?

    Yep, I just got done sticking in a whole pile of old flash drives that
    are all smaller ones, because some of them have data on them, and I
    wanted to move all the data to one 32gb drive because I get tired of
    finding drives with data everytime I need a blank one. So, each one of
    them had to do the "found new hardware" thing.

    However, after putting all the blank one away, I reinserted all the ones
    with data and they did not do the "new hardware" thing again.

    But I had two brand new 32 gb of the same brand (identical). I did not
    expect the second one to do this. Now I know why it did though.

    At least now I got a whole pile of 1gb 2gb 4 gb and 8gb drives and all
    of them are blank.... Everything got moved to one 32gb drive. TOmorrow
    I'll probably sort thru that and remove all the junk....



    If you see that message every time then something else is wrong.

    HTH

    JT


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