Vista Tutorial - USB-Massstorage Driver Problems

Hi there

my problem is that Windows Vista (Ultimate, 64Bit) can't find the standard
USB-Massstorage driver ... When I connect a USB Stick or MP3 Player or my
mobile phone to the USB port (any USB port) it says it needs a driver and
when I say go and get it ... look for it ... it can't find any ... please
help me!
NO USB Storage device is working and I don't know what to do. This is so
rediculous ... I bought Windows and can't get USB to work ...

"Tattva" <Tattva@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17266396-3EA4-4CA9-9FFA-AFD48F5C5619@microsoft.com...
> Hi there
>
> my problem is that Windows Vista (Ultimate, 64Bit) can't find the standard
> USB-Massstorage driver ... When I connect a USB Stick or MP3 Player or my
> mobile phone to the USB port (any USB port) it says it needs a driver and
> when I say go and get it ... look for it ... it can't find any ... please
> help me!
> NO USB Storage device is working and I don't know what to do. This is so
> rediculous ... I bought Windows and can't get USB to work ...


Problems with USB memory sticks are not uncommon in Vista and there is a fix
that appears to work for many (it worked for me).

Locate the file INFCACHE.1 on the PC. You'll find it in <OS
drive>\Windows\inf

Give yourself full control of INFCACHE.1 by right-clicking on it, then
Properties->Security->Edit to add your users group with full control.
Delete INFCACHE.1

Reboot your machine, then try the USB memory stick. Hopefully, Vista will
now find and install the needed driver.

Tattva wrote:
> Hi there
>
> my problem is that Windows Vista (Ultimate, 64Bit) can't find the standard
> USB-Massstorage driver ... When I connect a USB Stick or MP3 Player or my
> mobile phone to the USB port (any USB port) it says it needs a driver and
> when I say go and get it ... look for it ... it can't find any ... please
> help me!
> NO USB Storage device is working and I don't know what to do. This is so
> rediculous ... I bought Windows and can't get USB to work ...

Vista seems to tend to loose the files USBSTOR.INF and USBSTOR.PNF from
C:\Windows\INF. Probably there are more files missing then but the
USBSTOR files are most frequently used ones.
There are copies of the files in
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository - just copy them to
C:\Windows\INF.


Uwe