EV>Thanks for scratching Your head to help me, I appreciate the advice.   
      
   EV>1. I have only one printer connected to A.C. power, and its USB   
   EV>   connector hasn't been unplugged.   
      
   EV>2. I could scratch my head looking around REGEDIT for awhile.   
   EV>   And Yes, I would Save the current state to my XP desktop.   
      
   EV>3. The WD External HDD I have connected by Firewire instead of USB has   
   EV>   not been showing up in the My Computer list for a long time.   
      
   EV>   I've tried unplugging the Firewire cable and Power wire and then   
   EV>   reconnecting them.   
   EV>   Sometimes the Blue Circle on the front lights up, other times it   
   EV>   doesn't.   
   EV>   Sometimes when I turn the XP computer Off the Blue Circle stays lit   
   EV>   until I turn the UPS Off, some days when I turn the UPS on and power   
   EV>   up the XP box it doesn't come on at all.   
   EV>   I haven't used it for ages since I got larger External HDDs now and   
   EV>   use them now.   
      
   EV>   It has a Yellow symbol on it in Hardware Manager.   
      
   EV>   The Driver Tab says it hasn't started.   
      
   EV>   I pressed the Troubleshoot button and Windows Help&Support opened up   
   EV>   telling me to Uninstall it and then Reinstall it using Add New   
   EV>   Hardware in Control Panel.   
      
   EV>   I did that but it couldn't help me.   
      
   That sounds like a classic case of "Bad DriveR" Unfirtunatlky the   
   Drivers for Win XP for a lot of equipment are no longer avilable.   
   I have a useless perfectly good HP scanner because of that and had to   
   replace it   
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