Vista 64 cant find my USB flash drive

apc2007 · 12 Feb 2008 at 19:39

as the title really i have a USB pen drive and Vista cant find the drivers for it, i couldn't tell you the make of it as it was provided by college (SCC). ive doodled the forum for abit but couldn't really find anything.

any ideas :confused:

apc2007

theforce · 12 Feb 2008 at 22:52

Vista has drivers for the majority or hardware you might have but it doesn't have everything. Have you tried searching for the webpage of the maker of the device and see if there are any drivers on their website for Vista?

apc2007 · 13 Feb 2008 at 00:11

that's the problem, i don't know the make of it its was provided by college for backing up work etc...

tomos · 13 Feb 2008 at 03:25

is it just a normal flash drive? it shouldnt need drivers, only extra features like encryption as part of the drive (fingerprint scanner etc) need it afaik.

does vista see it as an unknown device? if so it might be the same problem i had prev - windows keeps a stupid cache of usb devices that causes nothing but problems.

the fix is to delete it. windows\info\infcache.1 - then reboot. reconnect flash drive in windows and hopefully it will work.

sorry if that's not what's causing it for you - no other suggestions