On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:31:41 -0400, "John Lee Brown"
<johnlbrown53notospam@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>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.
Just using C:\Windows has worked for alot of people too.
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>"Paul Walker" <noone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1scif359m1qloeapale18791gsffmms85o@xxxxxx Quote:
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>> 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,
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>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:09:55 +0100, Paul Walker <noone@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> Quote:
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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.
>>>
>>>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,