BACKGROUND - We had a home computer which picked up a bug of some sort, got it fixed through Hijack This but... subsequently found Trojan on a memory stick that had been used on that PC and laptops, this was also sorted.
ISSUES - I used the home PC (XP) and laptop (Vista) for managing my photos, after a short spell I could no longer read from my Pentax DSLR onto the laptop, stopped using the home PC and eventually got rid of it.
The Pentax broke, I bought a Canon - after a short while I could no longer read directly from the camera onto the laptop. The Canon was never attached to the home PC (now gone).
I have a new memory stick; I can read from it but everytime I plug it in to the laptop I get a message saying I should Scan and fix errors, none are ever found.
I bought a Seagate external hard drive and transfered all the useful stuff off my Vista laptop onto it, then attached it to my new 7 laptop - after a few days my laptop could no longer find the Seagate.
Have I been unlucky or is something odd whistling up my USBs every time I plug them in?
Thanks in advance for any advice.