I’m stumped by this one – would greatly appreciate any help:
1. On an XP machine, I plug in a USB flash and move some files on/off it, work, etc.
2. I put the machine into hibernation, with the USB stick still attached (i.e., without “safely removing it”).
3. I bring the PC out of hibernation.
Now, when I try to open the USB flash or look at my hard disk, that window just hangs (I get the “hourglass” mouse pointer when moving over the window). “Killing” the window kills explorer.exe.If I manually run explorer.exe after that, it still does the same thing. The only way out is a hard reset.
The problem has appeared suddenly, without me having installed any new programs recently.
The problem does NOT occur if I “safely remove” the USB stick before hibernating.
Anyone out there have encountered this before?
Thanks,
Dimitris
