This is regarding my laptop and not my desktop PC. Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 (Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3400 each @ 2.0 GHz, 3 GB Ram, Windows Vista Home Premium SP2). It fails to detect my Corsair 32GB Flash Voyager USB flash drive. This flash drive works fine on my two desktop PCs and a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527 laptop. The Dell laptop does detect all my other flash drives. It just doesn't recognize the Corsair 32GB Flash Voyager. When I input the flash drive into any one of the 3 USB drives on the Dell laptop, nothing happens and I don't see a drive letter associated with it. I went into device manager to see if there's a problem under the usb controllers and didn't find anything. If anyone knows how to resolve this issue, I would really appreciate it, thanks.

Maybe is recognized but no drive letter is assigned. Check this in the disk management console.

I checked disk management, its not there. When I put in one of my other flash drives, they all show up but not the Corsair one.

Any errors in the event log?

I'm not quite familiar with the event viewer. Can you please walk me through as to what I'm looking for?

Click Start / Run and type in eventvwr.msc, then click ok. In the eventviewer on the left hand side, you see: Application Security System Check the Application and System entries for errors, that are marked with a small red icon infront of it.

For the application section, there's one error in the event log for today, September 18, 2009. For general view, I see this: Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected. The detailed description is: - System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-WMI [ Guid] {1edeee53-0afe-4609-b846-d8c0b2075b1f} [ EventSourceName] WinMgmt - EventID 10 [ Qualifiers] 49152 Version 0 Level 2 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x80000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2009-09-18T18:37:07.000Z EventRecordID 1833 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 0 [ ThreadID] 0 Channel Application Computer My-PC Security - EventData //./root/CIMV2 SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99 0x80041003 For system, it shows 2 errors for today, the general description for the first one is: The Intel(R) PRO/1000 NDIS 6 Adapter Driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. The second one says: The Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI Express Network Connection Driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. Sources for both system errors are "Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider".