I'll go with "I have never had this problem, so it doesn't exist" type of answer :P

I suspected a loose USB connection.

I solved it by hammering a 9-inch nail through the cable connector and into the motherboard.

It's working fine but it bit unsightly.

This is the best rant i've seen yet, bravo!

cripes, johnel, I could have told you to use a rivet gun.

You win the prize of the most useless and over-used comment about a technical problem....

...a job in an offshore technical support hotline for a mobile phone company of your choice.

You are a n00b is how i see it. If you cant get used to it then why bother using it? If linux does the job for you then stick to that.

technical problem? lol

I just read that as 'I can't use a computer, and I'm going to blame it instead of myself'

Surely that's cue for a Machead, not a geek

You guys want to actually goad the man that laid down that prior rant? Balls o' steel.

"You're holding it wrong" - Steve Jobs.

Honestly, I've had this same problem with Card Readers. Works perfect every time in Linux, requires multiple reboots several times in Windows 7.

There is proof after many, many moons of using Windows of all flavors and Linux of many distributions, that the Windows USB stack sucks nuts (and not in the good hooker sort of way.)

Linux even had USB 2.0 and 3.0 support before Windows did.

Windows 7 usually finds my phone's mass storage device, though sometimes it only mounts the SD card rather than both of the storage devices on it.

Seriously though, kudos to the rant, that was awesome and should be shared across the globe!

slaapliedje

Thanks gerbrick.

I'm in a good mood so I'll be kind!

I'm a sprighty 40 year old burnt-out programmer working within the I.T. industry - (e.g. I've seen a lot of stuff - mainframes, cp/m, msdos, the very first version of Windows before it was made public, been directly involved in multi-million pound projects)

As far as "Balls o' steel" is concerned I suspect their balls haven't dropped yet and still sucking on their mother's ti****s!

Anyone who thinks that Windows got where it was today by technical merit is crazier than I am. (Actually I admire that kind of stupidity).

Actually, I often have a good chuckle at people who think they are some kind of expert because they know their way round Windows (the "OS" not the common 4-sided glass apertures in many buildings).

It's like some of the programmers I have had to interview in recent years. Just because they use an IDE they think they can program - err no. I asked a candidate "what does 'Option Explicit' mean?" and he could not answer the question! (hint: it has nothing to do with pornography!) - if you had the misfortune to program in Visual Basic you know what I mean!

So enough of the willy-waving.

At the end of the day computers should be easy to use for everyone - you can apoligise all you want about Windows but the simple fact is in it's current state it is an absolute mess.