Windows Vista Ultimate problems

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Ok, i have vista installed, 64bit version, and i love it. But i have a little trouble, well 2 things really.

1) i have 2 seagate 500GB 32mb Cashe ones, 1 has vista installed and is plugged into sata port 1 on my motherboard. This drive is working fine, but the second one (in sata port 2) cant be installed as when i turn it on it recognises that there is a drive there but cant find the driver to install it. So any suggestions on clicking in the drive management window wont work as it needs the drivers. Where can i find them? cant find them on the net anywhere or the microsoft site.

2) second problem is USB pen drives - why wont they work with vista? I have 4 of them, 2x2gb and 2x4gb, all generic ones and vista cant find the driver to install them so i can use them. Where will i find that driver.


I have searched on the net for these 2 things and have found nothing, please tell me you can help.
 
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Asus P5K Premium
4gb DDR2 OCZ reaper 800mhz
8800GTX
Vista Ultimate 64 bit
2x 500GB seagate 32mb cashe HDD's


that help?
 
Have you tried re-installing (or actually first time installing them, if you haven't done so already) the chipset drivers from Intel, compatible with Vista 64?

I know it's a stab in the dark, but you never know :)
 
For #2:

Control Panel>Programmes and Features>Turn Windows features on or off

Then tick "Removable Storage Management".

If that doesn't work... :confused: I dunno!
 
Have you done any updates to the machine from Microsoft. The problems you're talking about, were fixed with some improvment updates from Microsoft.
 
Hi,

You will find that the driver cache is not working as it should. I had this issue before and often things that needed drivers that were previously installed simply couldn't find them.

One work around is to let windows search for the driver, it will fail and ask what you want to do. When it gives you the option to add/search for a driver, in the location box just put "c:\" (or whatever your main windows install drive is.

It will then search the entire drive rather than just the driver cache. I found this worked 99% of the time. The only way I found of fixing the cache problem was to re-install Vista. Not had the issue since.

Certainly sounds like the same issue I had, since you have two of the same HDD and one works the other doesn't?
 
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