Thanks for the advice.
Less issues with USB drivers, this way.I was getting BSOD with encrypted volumes on a flash drive. Turned out to be a known issue relating to an x64 driver compiled for single rather than multicore. Reformatting the FAT volume as NTFS seems to resolve the BSOD. Amazing that this can still be going on after an OS has reached SP2. Oh, well.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
