My frustration level is at a maximum right now. I've spent the better part of the day trying to resolve this.
For no apparent reason today my computer stopped 'recognizing' my iPhone and iPod nano. When I plug in the iPhone it pops up 'USB device not recognized'. (these devices work fine on my laptop though).
My nano does nothing when I plug it in.
For a few weeks I would get a 'this device would work better if it were plugged into a 2.0 USB' or something like that message. I HAVE usb 2.0 - so I don't know why this warning would have been active, but everything worked well enough so I ignored it.
First I tried rolling back my system restore to last week. When that didn't work I tried rolling it back to before I bought the iPhone. No difference. (and not the first time system restore has not 'restored' my system...)
I then tried following the instructions here;
A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB thumb drive, an Apple iPod, or an external hard disk drive
This was even more frustrating. When I tried to delete the keys as proscribed I got an error message. I tried to assign the mysterious 'permissions' - even though I have only one user account on my PC. I even tried to creat a second admin user and got hozed. I tried assigning permissions to everyone and across everything. Nothing worked.
I tried deleting the individual properties on the right side and was able to delete all but 'default' I rebooted the computer and it did recognixze my iPhone! W00T! I synced it, then tried my wife's iPhone - same error!!! DOH!
So I did the same thing, but no luck. Only worked once....
So - I practice some of my more obscure and colorful Latin phrases..... and decided to post here to see if anyone has any ideas.....
my next step without any other ideas is to backup everything then nuke my xp install...
