I seem to be having the same or similar problems to metalgimp NW-A3000, SS 4.2-4.3, XP no usb hub used to work fine, but now SS wont recognise the device, only thing thats changed recently is i installed a new removable 500gb HDD windows recgnises it fine as sony HDD, can explore it, and other programmes see it as a removable HDD now the wierd bit, when i connected previously it auto booted SS fine, now it either loads the 'autoplay' box and messes about, or loads my camera pic viewing/downloading software, which can view the drive. checked and the autoplay option for the device/drive is not enabled and windows is still saying SS is the default for my player? anyone got any ideas how i can get ss to recognise my player again, bored of the tracks now!