OK folks, I have had it with this laptop. Its a Sony VAIO (not that it matters), but I just recently had to replace the hard drive and original equipment. This is no problem and everything is back to working normal. I have 99% of my info on an external hard drive so nothing was lost but the OS. Now that everything is back to normal when I plug my external hard drive in I get the dreaded "A HI-SPEED USB device is plugged into a non-HI-SPEED USB hub." message. These usb hubs are high speed but obviously it didn't load these right. I have tried everything I know to do to change these but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.