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1173663 2011-01-30 11:03:00 I cloned my failing HDD to a new HDD - it works fine except that intermittently the front USB ports fail to recognise any USB device is plugged in. I have tried a few USB flash drives, some are recognised randomly and some are not.

It was working fine before.

It's Win 7 Home Prem OS.

I used Acronis 2010 to clone the HDD.

May try to use Paragon Drive Copy 10 to 're-clone' the drive.

What do you guys suggest?
bk T (215)
1173664 2011-01-30 11:26:00 Did you build the computer?? If you did, I would check the front USB connection Speedy Gonzales (78)
1173665 2011-01-30 11:36:00 Yeah, may have dislodged the cable when you removed/replaced the HDDs. feersumendjinn (64)
1173666 2011-02-01 06:39:00 No, cable connections are OK.

Fresh clean re-install of Win7 solved the problems. Took hours to reload all the application programs and configuring them.
bk T (215)
1173667 2011-02-01 07:09:00 Probably the cloning carried over some corrupted files from the old HDD, may have been quicker to have done a repair install, but never mind, sorted now. :thumbs: feersumendjinn (64)
1173668 2011-02-02 01:11:00 Sometimes putting a computer into standby can turn off a front USB port. I'm not too sure how to rectify this, but it happens on my Dell Dimension 3100. mookster1 (15854)
1173669 2011-02-02 01:25:00 Go to the USB device in device manager / power management tab. Untick allow the computer to turn off this device off to save power Speedy Gonzales (78)
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