When it asks for the driver where do you tell it the driver is? Next time
tell it that you want to tell it where the drivers are and enter
C:\Windows\System32\drivers, this has worked for me.
"Paul Walker" <noone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Lacie like other USB 2.0 External drive manufacturers offer no
> drivers, only for Win98 which is understandable.
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> 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.
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> Paul,
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> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:09:55 +0100, Paul Walker <noone@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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,