Vista 64 Cant Find My USB Drive....

Stellios · 10 Dec 2007 at 19:32

Hi,

Having some bother with Vista Business 64. When connecting pretty much anything thats used as a removable drive (my mobile, a card reader and more important my USB pen) its just saying cannot find drivers for USB Flash Drive, so it knows what it is, and then refusing to show it in my computer.

Is there an easy fix to this? My pen drive has no drivers and I really need to be able to use it.

Cheers

Theguy · 10 Dec 2007 at 19:39

hmm interesting, perhaps having the vista cd in the cd drive, so it can look for the drivers on the disk.

that or point it towards system32?

bledd · 10 Dec 2007 at 19:45

try removing 2gb of mem

i had this, and removing 2gb fixed it, there's a hotfix out now that probably fixes it.. think it's on windows update, just install them all..

Stellios · 10 Dec 2007 at 20:08

So if I take 2GB out and plug it in will ti update the drivers then I can put 2GB back in and itll work from then? Or do I need to have the 2GB taken out constantly?

Cheers

bledd · 10 Dec 2007 at 20:13

try the windows update, should fix it.. (afaik)

Hamish · 10 Dec 2007 at 20:26

I was this problem on a clients computer - the driver database had been deleted, easiest fix is a reinstall AFAIK.

Confused · 11 Dec 2007 at 18:15

I had this occur a few days after installing Vista on my new machine last week - only fixed it last night, as it'd been really annoying me!

Do a search on C: (including hidden, system & non-indexed locations) for usbstor

You should find a file usbstor.sys and usbstor.inf in a usbstor.inf_XXXXXXXX folder in the C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\ folder

Copy these into C:\Windows\INF, and restart the computer.

(I'm doing it on a 32 bit Vista, I don't know if they've changed the file locations much in x64)

You should now, hopefully, be able to just plug in a USB memory stick, and have it work.

Garry