Vista - Driver Installation can't find drivers

In older versions of Windows from XP to RC2 I was able to install certain
drivers like usb flash drives and external hard drives without searching for
hardware drivers. Now that I am using RTM it is not finding drivers
automatically. I have had to say I have a disk and point it to C:\Windows
to find drivers. If I do automatic it won't find any but if I manually
point it to Windows folder on C it will. What is up and how do I fix this?

is the driver not signed? is this an upgrade?


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"BigK" <bigk@bellsouth.com> wrote in message
news:3E0E8F6A-5EAE-4513-A7C6-7786A3E2C8B0@microsoft.com...
> In older versions of Windows from XP to RC2 I was able to install certain
> drivers like usb flash drives and external hard drives without searching
> for hardware drivers. Now that I am using RTM it is not finding drivers
> automatically. I have had to say I have a disk and point it to C:\Windows
> to find drivers. If I do automatic it won't find any but if I manually
> point it to Windows folder on C it will. What is up and how do I fix
> this?

"Josh" <josh@nospammers-windowsconnected.com> wrote in message
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> is the driver not signed? is this an upgrade?

you say "the driver" like it is just one. This is happening with EVERY
driver. No matter what hardware I use.

And no it was an fresh install.

Thanks


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> Josh
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> You never know what you might learn - http://windowsconnected.com
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> "BigK" <bigk@bellsouth.com> wrote in message
> news:3E0E8F6A-5EAE-4513-A7C6-7786A3E2C8B0@microsoft.com...
>> In older versions of Windows from XP to RC2 I was able to install certain
>> drivers like usb flash drives and external hard drives without searching
>> for hardware drivers. Now that I am using RTM it is not finding drivers
>> automatically. I have had to say I have a disk and point it to
>> C:\Windows to find drivers. If I do automatic it won't find any but if I
>> manually point it to Windows folder on C it will. What is up and how do
>> I fix this?
>