USB device not recognized

This may be so much a niche issue that this won't help anyone, but after some frustration, the solution to a problem I was having was enough in the weeds that I thought it worth posting in the hopes it might keep someone else from pulling their hair out. I have an Asus Vivobook M6500RE (AMD...

Recently i've dug up my old HP pavilion ze2000 and it had a bunch of junk on it and when i tried restoring it well it had no partition to restore from so i had to reinstall windows xp s3 on it and format the drive and once i did i installed the drivers necessary (video, audio, etc) and...