USB devices Won't work

[samz90]

Recently certain usb hardware has been playing up. My printer and webcam are fine but my pendrive and digital camera lead wont work. When I plug them in I get a message 'one of the usb devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not reconize it'

Please could someone help me get my things up and running again, Thanks.

[samz90]

I have tried all of that and nothing seems to work.

[alunrw]

Have a look in
Control Panel>system>hardware>device manager and check the USB items specified, yu can click on the Driver details and this should show if theres any problem with drivers etc. maybe theyve become corrupt ?? depending on when this started happening, have you tried a "system restore" to a point prior to the problem - if t his doesnt solve it you can always cancel the restore and bring it back up to date.