I'm having a strange problem with my laptop. some USB-based devices (Ipod, Memory Stick) work fine, wheras others (External Hard Drive, Mobile Phone transfer cable) aren't recognised. Nothing happens when I plug them in, and having been to the Disk Management screen, they don't appear there either. Can anyone help?

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm well i dunno but i'lll try sum work ok cheers mate

oki got it maybe u should transfer ur things in the external harddrive to another device that recognises it and then format it and transfer it back and try that and on the phone transfer cables didnt u get a suite with ur mobile if that doesnt work just buy a freakin memory reader