Vista - USB-Freecom Classic SL External Drive Not Recognised

I have a Classic SL 180Gb drive.

When I plug drive in it asks for a driver which I don't have.

Freecom Support say it must be a problem with my USB port but a different Classic SL drive 80Gb works OK. The 180Gb drive works OK on an XP machine.

Any help much appreciated.

Update;

Finally fixed this after hours of playing around.

I tried the External Classic SL 160Gb in a Vista Home machine and it worked first time. This gave me some useful info re the driver being used which turned out to be Samsung so maybe they provide the hardware for Freecom in this case.

I did a system restore on the Vista Ultimate PC to the earliest possible date since I could not be certain other updates etc were having an effect. I created a new folder under C:\ and named it C:\ usb drivers as detailed elsewhere within the driver forum and copied all INF contents into C:\usb drivers.


After boot up I turned the external drive on and to my amazement it was now identified as a Samsung compared to previous Classic SL description. It looked for the driver and was installed, job done.

Hi. I had a problem with an external hard drive with Windows demanding USB drivers so I got in touch with Microsoft who are offering free support for SP1 related issues.
I got a reply from one of their tech guys and it sorted out my problem.
Worth a try? Check out my post "USB to IDE drivers-Help!" of two weeks ago, currently on page three of the drivers section.
As I say it worked for me, John

Yes, thanks for that will look later.

Another part of the conundrum for my PC , was the motherboard and BIOS (American Megatrends). I have another 500Gb Iomega drive USB drive that was also refusing to be recognised.

On boot up I went into the BIOS and found a specific section re USB connections with various options. I switched this to HDD and Viola!! after re boot the Iomega was recognised and accessible.

My only problem now is to stop the many messages that I get asking to look for drivers etc which is a continual pain despite uninstalling the various descriptions in Control Panel / Device Drivers.