Bog standard memory card not working in Vista

mrochester · 25 Apr 2007 at 19:58

I've been having this problem since forever with Vista and it's back to bug me again.

I have a Nokia N95, and using the supplied, generic USB cable, you can select a 'data transfer' mode on the phone, giving you direct access to the memory card in the phone. The idea of this mode is, just like a USB drive, no drivers are required. However, in typical Vista style, it is asking for drivers, and refuses to work otherwise. And obviously, because it is designed to work without drivers, none exist.

How the fudge do I get this damn thing to work? I've tried switching the USB2 controller off to force USB1, but this didn't work. It just keeps on asking for this non-existant driver.

BTW, I will add that it works perfectly, without fail, everytime in a WindowsXP PC.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

Thanks,

Michael.

mrochester · 25 Apr 2007 at 22:40

Anyone?

basmic · 25 Apr 2007 at 22:44

My advice is to bin Windows ME2.

Bailey_sufc · 25 Apr 2007 at 22:45

basmic said:
My advice is to bin Windows ME2.

come on its not that bad close but not that bad all os are bad at first

Tute · 25 Apr 2007 at 23:40

basmic said:
My advice is to bin Windows ME2.

Handy.

Back to GD with you now...

mrochester said:
I've been having this problem since forever with Vista and it's back to bug me again.

I have a Nokia N95, and using the supplied, generic USB cable, you can select a 'data transfer' mode on the phone, giving you direct access to the memory card in the phone. The idea of this mode is, just like a USB drive, no drivers are required. However, in typical Vista style, it is asking for drivers, and refuses to work otherwise. And obviously, because it is designed to work without drivers, none exist.

How the fudge do I get this damn thing to work? I've tried switching the USB2 controller off to force USB1, but this didn't work. It just keeps on asking for this non-existant driver.

BTW, I will add that it works perfectly, without fail, everytime in a WindowsXP PC.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

Thanks,

Michael.

There are some suggestions here...

http://www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/showthread.php?t=55743

mrochester · 26 Apr 2007 at 00:13

OMG, it worked! Getting it to search for drivers in C:\ and it actually installed something!

Tute · 26 Apr 2007 at 00:43

mrochester said:
OMG, it worked! Getting it to search for drivers in C:\ and it actually installed something!

Working now?

From what I could tell, it's not actually asking for drivers for the N95, it's asking for some kind of USB driver, which it already has. Therefore making it search it's own hard drive solves the problem. Odd, but there you go. Bound to be teething problems with a new OS.

mrochester · 26 Apr 2007 at 00:45

Tute said:
Working now?

From what I could tell, it's not actually asking for drivers for the N95, it's asking for some kind of USB driver, which it already has. Therefore making it search it's own hard drive solves the problem. Odd, but there you go. Bound to be teething problems with a new OS.

Yeah very odd since when you tell it to automatically search for the driver, you'd think it would check it's own files first.