prodonjs

Well the plot has definitely thickened. Last night I attempted to perform a
System Restore but I couldn’t go back as far as I would have liked. I
actually had problems with that as it hung when I tried to do it from regular
mode, it would only work when I went into Safe Mode and ran System Restore.
So I did all that and now at least my USB controllers are correctly installed
in the Device Manager, but still nothing works. In fact, no USB device will
work in any of my three ports other than my wireless mouse, and it only works
in one port, the port I have always used it in. Any other device I try gives
me that dreaded “Parameter is Incorrect” error with no further explanation.

What I think I am going to have to do is re-install Vista. I really would
rather just reinstall overtop of the current platform so I don’t lose all of
my programs and everything, but I highly doubt that’ll be possible

It’ll probably just be a better idea to start from scratch with a fresh
install. I would just restore from a backup on my external HDD, but of course
it’s USB and that’s a no go since it won’t be recognized anywhere. I don’t
have my Vista DVD on me at the moment, it’s back at home and I’m at my
temporary residence where I work during the week, so prior to Friday, does
anyone have any other suggestions that could let me salvage the system?


"prodonjs" wrote:

> I am hoping that someone can help me get to the bottom of this oddly arising
> error that is crippling my Vista laptop. I migrated to Vista last month with
> a fresh install and everything was very smooth. I noticed almost zero
> incompatibilities, with the exception of one ‘Unknown Device’ in my Device
> Manager that I couldn’t put a finger on since all of the things I utilized
> daily worked properly.
>
> Anyways, last weekend I went to connect my Creative Zen Micro to transfer
> some music files and the system correctly recognized the device and began
> installing the drivers. After a few minutes of trying though, the program
> crashed out and said that;
>
> “Windows has found drivers for your device but they could not be installed”
>
> “Could not install drivers for MTP device”
>
> “The parameter is incorrect”.
>
> So I was frustrated and searched around to try and find help for this issue
> but it didn’t appear that anyone else experienced similar problems with their
> Zen’s and Vista.
>
> At the time though, I assumed my USB ports were all working correctly since
> I had used my SanDisk flashdrive and WD external HDD with no problems
> whatsoever. But I hadn’t used them since I had tried the MP3 player, and
> wouldn’t you know that when I plugged in my flashdrive yesterday, it acted as
> if it needed to install drivers (which it shouldn’t have) and then crashed
> out on the install giving me the same message as the MP3 player;
>
> “The parameter is incorrect”
>
> Now, this device worked fine a week ago and gave me no trouble ever, nor did
> my external HDD. So I thought maybe some of the USB drivers became corrupt so
> I went into Safe Mode, removed all USB related items and restarted expecting
> me system to re-detect and configure all the USB controllers. Well it
> detected them, but unfortunately now I cannot install any device at all. I
> keep getting that same message, “The parameter is incorrect” but
> unfortunately that message gives me absolutely no other information as to
> what the parameter is, or why it is giving the system grief.
>
> There is no other information passed back to me. I am very frustrated with
> this whole deal because I have not been able to track down any related items
> anywhere online. I did not make any hardware or software configuration
> changes that would have seemingly lead to this type of behavior. And, as I
> said the two other devices were working correctly with Vista until I tried
> connecting the Zen Micro MP3 player.
>
> My machine has Vista Ultimate on it installed from a clean base, and, on two
> other partitions I have the beginnings of Linux system that I am building
> from source, but again, this should have no bearing on my Vista partition
> since I haven’t even installed a boot manager yet for Linux. I have a feeling
> that this is some type of permissions issue, but none of my permission
> policies should have changed since the time when I originally used those
> devices. I’m really hoping someone can offer me some help. I greatly
> appreciate your time.
>