Lacie like other USB 2.0 External drive manufacturers offer no
drivers, only for Win98 which is understandable.
The drive is detected and works on other vista systems. I have
Vista Ultimate. I am well aware that threre appears to be a lot of
people with the exact same issue. I have worked through the
suggestions but upto now nothing has worked.
Paul,
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:09:55 +0100, Paul Walker <noone@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:
>
>I have a 500gb Lacie USB 2.0 External Hard Drive and I am trying to
>get it to work with a new Dell Laptop with Windows Vista Ultimate
>installed.
>
>Vista recognises the hardware when plugged in. The add new hardware
>dialog comes up asking for installation of drivers. The drive works
>flawlwessly in XP and has been tested on other Vista Laptop's and
>works flawlessly. In these cases the OS does not ask for any drivers.
>
>I have tried the INFCACHE.1 fix. This allowed the hardware to be
>listed in Hardware manager as correctly installed and working. I could
>access the drive (formated NTFS) and copy/copy from it. However
>Vista was still asking for a driver to be installed. I cancelled this
>and could still access the drive ok.
>
>Once I unplugged the drive however I was back to square one.
>Vista reclassified the drive as other devices and yellow exclamation
>mark. On boot up Vista asks for the device driver.
>
>Paul,