all of a sudden USB and memory card slot won't work

I have had my laptop for about a year. Recently bought a Flip video camera.
I have downloaded videos to the lap top no problem as well as often download
still pictures. All of a sudden my computer will not respond to any of the
USB drives or memory card slots. any thoughts????

Most often, it is a 'safely remove hardware" problem, the Properties of the
devices have a Policies tab to change 'write caching'

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Mark L. Ferguson

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"petro" <petro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have had my laptop for about a year. Recently bought a Flip video camera.
> I have downloaded videos to the lap top no problem as well as often
> download
> still pictures. All of a sudden my computer will not respond to any of
> the
> USB drives or memory card slots. any thoughts????

would you be able to walk me through this?

I know it is my laptop and not the Flip because I tried using the Flip in
the USB on another laptop with have and the Flip worked fine. The Flip has
the software within in the unit so I have to have the USB to work in order to
transfer the videos to the computer.

"petro" wrote:

> I have had my laptop for about a year. Recently bought a Flip video camera.
> I have downloaded videos to the lap top no problem as well as often download
> still pictures. All of a sudden my computer will not respond to any of the
> USB drives or memory card slots. any thoughts????