Satellite A200: Cannot use external USB devices properly

I encountered a problem with my Toshiba notebook and i can't fix it and I am in need your help please..
The problem is that when i connect a USB portable device (external USB harddisk , iPod ,Flash memory ..etc) with more than 8GB of Memory..
It's not properly installed in device manager and appears under "universal serial bus controller ".
But it doesn't say that it's an unknown device. It appears normally with its name, but it's not properly installed (it doesn't say that either ) where it is supposed to be under a specific category (harddisk under "disk drives" , camera under "imaging devices " and so on )
And i can't use the device because the HDD doesn't appear in "My computer" and my iPod can't be used
I'd like to inform you that this problem is with all USB devices with more than 8GB of memory.
Not just one device. I tried many devices to make sure that it's not a problem with the device.
So it's a problem with my laptop and i installed Windows many times with no progress.
Thanks for your help in advance ..

Is it XP or Vista?
If its XP, ensure you have at least Service Pack 2.
This hotfix may help XP see high capacity media:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934428
but that wouldn't really affect external USB HDD's.

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Is there at least any power going to the USB ports? ( as in if for example you plug in a USB light, will it switch on? )
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Regards,
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...right before going into sleep mode.
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Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] ESI: f6447e80 EDI: f46b05f0 EBP: f15a7e58 ESP: f15a7e40
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Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] Stack:
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] f15a7eac f46b05e0 f6447e80 f1255a40 f6447e80 f46b05f0 f15a7e6c c10d4f48
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] 00000010 f6447e80 f46b05e0 f15a7e84 c113be2c 00000000 efa3b930 ef1f4400
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] 00000000 f15a7e90 c113befa f1141600 f15a7eb4 f8046f1e f1141600 f804b3e4
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Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c10d4f48>] account_page_dirtied+0x68/0x90
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c113be2c>] __set_page_dirty+0x3c/0xb0
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c113befa>] mark_buffer_dirty+0x5a/0x90
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<f8046f1e>] ext2_sync_super+0x6e/0xd0 [ext2]
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<f8046fd1>] ext2_sync_fs+0x51/0x60 [ext2]
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Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c113a4ca>] __sync_filesystem+0x5a/0x80
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c113a539>] sync_filesystem+0x29/0x50
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c111656e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x2e/0xe0
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c1116649>] kill_block_super+0x29/0x70
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Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c112ed38>] mntput+0x18/0x30
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c1116154>] fput+0x134/0x1e0
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c1112d14>] filp_close+0x54/0x80
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c1112db4>] sys_close+0x74/0xc0
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Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] [<c1340000>] ? setup_local_APIC+0x2c9/0x3b8
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] Code: eb ce 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 83 ec 18 89 5d f4 89 c3 89 e0 25 00 e0 ff ff 89 75 f8 89 7d fc 83 40 14 01 8b 43 14
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost [67351.155834] 8b 30 89 f7 c1 ff 1f 01 d6 89 45 f0 8b 45 08 11 cf 89 c2 c1
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] EIP: [<c11cf02f>] __percpu_counter_add+0x1f/0xe0 SS:ESP 0068:f15a7e40
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] CR2: 00000000342da000
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.155834] ---[ end trace a7afafe94ef537f4 ]---
Dec 7 11:29:18 localhost kernel: [67351.182781] note: transmission-gt[2302] exited with preempt_count 2
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Any ideas what's going on and how to fix this?
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Thanks, however, my problem isn't speed, it's stability of the system.

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.....which is on this thread
May not be any use to you without an internal DVD RW which works.
In your shoes I would really want to get my internal superdrive working.
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