Pi

Thank you very much Cal Bear '66. Your tip sounds like it could have worked
for me. Hopefully it will be helpful to others also. Meanwhile, I got fed
up and ran a reinstall (upgrade) of Vista Ultimate 32 with all of my devices
plugged in. After the upgrade finished, the devices were recognized and
installed as normal. This fixed the issues for my 60Gb ipod and usb flash
drives. All of my files and programs of course are still intact, so I would
recommend this solution to any other people who are having persistent usb
problems. It'll take about an hour, but for whatever reason it fixed my
problem. Thanks to all who posted replies here.

I can't help thinking that Microsoft really needs to fix this issue, because
loads of people seem to be experiencing it in different forms.

Tom


"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

> This solution has worked for some people with problematic USB devices:
>
> Locate the file INFCACHE.1 in C:\Windows\inf
>
> Right click on the INFCACHE.1 file, select Properties >Security > Edit, and give
> your account full control.
>
> Delete INFCACHE.1, or rename it to INFCACHE.1.BAK or temporarily move to your
> desktop.
>
> REBOOT
>
> Try plugging in your USB devices again.
>
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "SandyG" <SandyG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CE0B9ED6-27B6-4601-8A9F-F8572E4BF114@microsoft.com...
> >I am having exactly the same issue with USB Flash Drives. I have several --
> > some install and others don't. Vista cannot find the drivers anywhere for the
> > problem drives and neither can I. All the drives work fine on my XP based
> > laptop.
> >
> > "Pi" wrote:
> >
> >> I have a 60Gb 5th generation ipod and several usb flash drives that used to
> >> be recognized by Windows XP's native Plug and Play driver scheme. However,
> >> after a clean install of Vista Ultimate 32-bit, Windows is unable to find
> >> drivers for any of my devices. I have followed other discussions and tried
> >> things such as leaving devices plugged in and rebooting, directing Windows to
> >> search for drivers in the C:\Windows folder, installing updates from Windows
> >> Update, and other attempts. I am at the end of my creativity about getting
> >> my ipod and flash drives to install so that I can use them. Having tried
> >> previous suggestions, I'm stumped. Any ideas? Has Microsoft basically
> >> dropped plug and play support in Vista? This would be an odd move, as these
> >> devices are so widespread...
>
>
>