Quick question on USB freezing

nad12

nad12

nad12

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Hi all,
I've recently purchased a new PC running Windows 10. Being new I am treating it with kid gloves. The day after I bought it, I plugged in a new USB memory stick and loaded files from the stick to the PC, and from the PC to the stick. I actually did with this two different USB memory sticks. All worked fine.
The I plugged in a 13 year old MP3 player. When I loaded files from the PC to the MP3 player it was fine but as soon as I loaded the music files from the MP3 player to the PC the progress bar opened but didn't progress whatsoever. I then went and clicked the cancel progress button but nothing happened so I then clicked the cross (X) on the top right-hand corner of the progress box and then the usual 'not responding' flashed up. I loaded Task Manager to kill the task but when I tried the wallpaper went a blue colour (not the screen of death blue) but the Window 95 colour blue. I had no choice but to pull the MP3 player from the USB port. As soon as I did that the whole PC went back to normal functioning.

I rebooted the PC and tried again but the exact same outcome occurred.

I then rebooted and plugged the MP3 player in, but this time I simply clicked eject the MP3 player so to close off any footprints left behind from the freezing/crashing.

My question is,
Is this normal with USB sticks (my USB memory sticks worked fine but the MP3 player had problems - was it because it was 13 years old)?
Have I dud PC (although is working fine now)?
Even if the PC isn't dud have I damaged the hardware of software in any way (I just want the new PC to be ship shape)

Thanks in advance.
 
Can anyone enlighten me?
I wish to understand if the issue I faced above is nothing to worry about, or if its a problem with my PC, or the issue will have caused a problem with my PC. If I know this then I will know if I need to speak with the shop I purchased it from.
Thanks.
 
IIRC the pc loads/installs drivers for the hardware being installed in the usb socket. As the mp3 player is old it might have trouble with the proper drivers for it.

Have you been on the website for the player to see if there are specific drivers for it?
 
With all respect, you need to give more details, otherwise people will ignore the post or randomly speculate. Make and model of the MP3 player would be a good start.
 
Thanks for your responses.
"Have you been on the website for the player to see if there are specific drivers for it?" -- No I haven't done this. I've never done this. I guess all drivers I've needed are been automatically detected by Windows.

No offense taken. I didn't realise the finer details of the make and model would be important (sounds silly on my part I know). Anything I've plugged into the USB driver has always worked.

I'll go with the understanding that due to the MP3 player being so old (13 years) the driver cannot be found. As I say it was only faulting when transferring from the MP3 to the PC.
Thanks for your help.
 
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