Thanks very much for posting the sucessful results of your efforts.
Will be keeping a copy for my troubleshooting section. :-)
guileh3d wrote:
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> So a few days ago when investigating why i couldn't get my iPod
> installed I found a few posts mentioning that "USBSTOR.INF" was missing
> from "C:\windows\inf". That poster was able to find the file in
> "C:\windows\system32\filerepositiory". There were several folders in
> there that had the inf file and pnf file as well, he took the most
> recent one and copied that to "C:\windows\inf" and from there on he was
> able to install his ipod.
>
> I noticed the same thing and copied the inf over but that did not help
> me so i ignored it. Just a little while ago I noticed another poster
> mention that he was missing "msmouse.inf" was missing as well. I noticed
> the same thing and wondered how many other files were missing. So I
> wrote a small program that scanned through
> "c:\windows\system32\filerepository" and gathered the latest inf and pnf
> files and copied all of them over to "c:\windows\inf". For good measure
> i did gathered the most recent ".sys" files as well and copied those to
> "C:\windows\system32\drivers".
>
> I rebooted and voola, I didn't have the issue anymore with the new
> hardware wizard and i was able to install my ipod as well.
>
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