USB Devices No longer working afte 10.4 update.

My external USB 2 drive is now no longer recognized by my Macs after the upgrade. The weird thing is that if I run Parrallels they appear as normal.
The drive does not appear in disk manager put does on hardware profiler.
Any ideas?

Hi Steve,
As Eric says, you may be able to repair this with 10.4.10 Combo Updater Intel.
This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before. It has worked well for many.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
Good luck.
EDIT: You can't "reverse the patch" without erasing your drive and re-installing. Hopefully, you won't have to.
-mj
[email protected]
Message was edited by: macjack

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