Vista - Problem with Sony Laptop (VISTA)

My laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ480E which I think is having driver problems. Whatever I put into the SD/MS slots or any USB slots won't work with the computer. It tells me to format it, and it will only work with it after I format it. My memory cards and flash drives work everywhere else, just not with this computer. As you can imagine, its a huge problem for me as i cannot use anything external with this computer. Please someone help me figure out the problem and solve it. Thank you.

My laptop hardware is as follows:
T8100 Processor (2.1 Ghz)
320 GB hard drive
3 GB RAM
Vista Premium x86

PLEASE SAVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it is not your driver problem actually...because if it were a driver problem,then your device will simply won't work...it is just becasue the usb or sd card is doesn't have the same compability as your pc...so i advice you to format it and then it will surely work

Hi t3m0,
You can go check if the devices are working properly at device manager.
Well if nothing is working (usb,sd...) there is a way to solve it but this is the base option i am giving you. DO a custom re installation of ur OS. If u dont like this option i could help u out if u give me the exact readings your computer is giving when u plug it in and what ur device manager says about the device.

You are completely wrong because my devices work perfectly everywhere else but not with this one computer. A few weeks/monthes ago my memory cards and flash drives were working perfectly with this same laptop. Just recently it stopped working.

Amigo Max
In Device Manager it says they are working properly and doesn't give any bad signals. You're right, a complete re-installation would work, but I don't want to do that because it will delete all my data and will force a reformat of my hard drive. I would much rather just wait for Windows 7 or find another way around.
When I plug in my externals, the computer doesn't prompt anything until I open my computer and click on the SD/MS or USB icon.

Thanks

Well everyone know that we lose the data if we have a re installation. If u r keeping very important data which u cant afford to lose have it back up in a flash drive or a DVD. U can even use software's like Nero to backup things