I have dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 13.10 on efi Dell Inspiron 14z 5423 ultrabook.
My devices are recognized well in Ubuntu.
If I reboot the system (i,e switch from Ubuntu to Windows 7) and start Windows 7, no USB devices are recognized in Windows 7.
But when I shutdown Ubuntu completely and then start the system with Windows 7, all USB devices are recognized well.
Sometimes even shutting down ubuntu and restarting to windows 7 has this problem, and then i have to hold down poweroff button and shut it down or usb devices will not get picked up.
I am sure it is because of Ubuntu as I have tested it by removing Ubuntu. (4 times)
Also I have laptop-mode-tools and USB autosuspend is ON.(have also tried to disable autosuspend but no success) I have disabled integrated NIC because when it is enabled Ubuntu won't boot (Purple Screen). Also i have intel rapid storage setup in windows 7, have disabled it but it didn't help. Please if any one can help.
UPDATE thanks to suggestion of @falconer, my issue is resolved now. Windows 7 drivers were giving me this problem. I downloaded usb 3.0 drivers from dell website but they gave errors of newer drivers are already installed. Then i downloaded drivers from intel website they too gave the particular error but i was able to force install and now after testing my problem is resolved. So this problem arises when you don't have proper windows usb 3.0 drivers and you try to attach usb 2.0 device in usb 3.0 port in linux.
These are lsusb
and lspci
outputs if it can help: