Vista - poss solution to generic volume and usb drive problems

11-04-2008

was having a hell of a time trying to get my Vista x64 system to recognize
all of my card readers and my usb hubs. For the USB hubs it would recognize
2gig or less flash drives but nothing over that and when I opened "my
computer" I didn't see the typical list of all the 'virtual drives' I was
used to seeing. I tried redoing the INFCACHE.1 trick, and edited my registry
to point to system32 and sysWOW64, non of which worked. Then, while removing
a program I thought might have started the problem I noticed something I
hadn't seen before in the uninstall/change programs. On the left hand side is
a link that says "Turn Windows features on or off" and when I opened it one
of the options was "Removable Storage Mangagement" and it was UNCHECKED. So I
decided to check it (and a couple other things I thought might be useful) and
sure enough when I booted back up all the card readers, usb hubs and flash
drives worked like a charm. If you've been sharing my frustration you should
try it and see if it works.
Ciao,
Greg

11-04-2008

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> was having a hell of a time trying to get my Vista x64 system to recognize
> all of my card readers and my usb hubs. For the USB hubs it would
> recognize
> 2gig or less flash drives but nothing over that and when I opened "my
> computer" I didn't see the typical list of all the 'virtual drives' I was
> used to seeing. I tried redoing the INFCACHE.1 trick, and edited my
> registry
> to point to system32 and sysWOW64, non of which worked. Then, while
> removing
> a program I thought might have started the problem I noticed something I
> hadn't seen before in the uninstall/change programs. On the left hand side
> is
> a link that says "Turn Windows features on or off" and when I opened it
> one
> of the options was "Removable Storage Mangagement" and it was UNCHECKED.
> So I
> decided to check it (and a couple other things I thought might be useful)
> and
> sure enough when I booted back up all the card readers, usb hubs and flash
> drives worked like a charm. If you've been sharing my frustration you
> should
> try it and see if it works.
> Ciao,
> Greg

11-04-2008	#1 (permalink)
GDS n/a posts	poss solution to generic volume and usb drive problems was having a hell of a time trying to get my Vista x64 system to recognize all of my card readers and my usb hubs. For the USB hubs it would recognize 2gig or less flash drives but nothing over that and when I opened "my computer" I didn't see the typical list of all the 'virtual drives' I was used to seeing. I tried redoing the INFCACHE.1 trick, and edited my registry to point to system32 and sysWOW64, non of which worked. Then, while removing a program I thought might have started the problem I noticed something I hadn't seen before in the uninstall/change programs. On the left hand side is a link that says "Turn Windows features on or off" and when I opened it one of the options was "Removable Storage Mangagement" and it was UNCHECKED. So I decided to check it (and a couple other things I thought might be useful) and sure enough when I booted back up all the card readers, usb hubs and flash drives worked like a charm. If you've been sharing my frustration you should try it and see if it works. Ciao, Greg
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11-04-2008	#2 (permalink)
David B. n/a posts	Re: poss solution to generic volume and usb drive problems We heard you the first 2 times. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Help Us Help You http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "GDS" <GDS@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:708198D5-F8F4-4BF9-8605-D54F61ABB526@xxxxxx Quote: > was having a hell of a time trying to get my Vista x64 system to recognize > all of my card readers and my usb hubs. For the USB hubs it would > recognize > 2gig or less flash drives but nothing over that and when I opened "my > computer" I didn't see the typical list of all the 'virtual drives' I was > used to seeing. I tried redoing the INFCACHE.1 trick, and edited my > registry > to point to system32 and sysWOW64, non of which worked. Then, while > removing > a program I thought might have started the problem I noticed something I > hadn't seen before in the uninstall/change programs. On the left hand side > is > a link that says "Turn Windows features on or off" and when I opened it > one > of the options was "Removable Storage Mangagement" and it was UNCHECKED. > So I > decided to check it (and a couple other things I thought might be useful) > and > sure enough when I booted back up all the card readers, usb hubs and flash > drives worked like a charm. If you've been sharing my frustration you > should > try it and see if it works. > Ciao, > Greg
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