USB Sticks Not Recognised

[NIK1]

I reinstalled win 7 ul x64 today and for some reason when I plug in a usb stick or external hard drive windows fails every time to install the drivers for it.Device manager shows code 10 device cannot start.When I boot my pc to the other windows 7 I have they all work fine.Its got to be a driver issue somewhere, but the only one I see with a yellow mark by the device is the usb stick. Any ideas on what to check..

 

[Emerald]

do you have the latest chipset drivers installed?

is it for a USB 2.0 or 3.0?

 

[NIK1]

USB 2.0-Even the 3.0 port on my pc does the same thing.

 

[chris_shadez]

Have you checked Disk Management?
-plug the drive in
-Right click on My Computer, Select Manage
-Go to Disk Management on the left pane
-Your usb drive may show as Disk # (e.g. Disk 3)
-Right click on that disk and assign it a Letter (Selected "Change Drive Letter or Paths")

The usb drive should now pop up as you would normally expect

 

[NIK1]

I checked disk management and it does not show .In device manager it shows USB disk 2.0 USB device with yellow mark, device status,This device cannot start. (Code 10) .

 

[chris_shadez]

Hope this was solved by now as you have marked it as solved, if not, here is a useful link on fixing this error
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/code-10-error.htm
More info here than anyone could post on this issue