Flash Drives in Vista
Sat, 03/10/2007 - 01:31 — Storytell
I have Vista Home Premium and it refuses to accept my flash drives in the USB port. I have tried three different ones and if I get it to work for 2 minutes when I try to write to it it hangs the system. Any help?
Please!
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Make USB Flash Drives Vista Compatible
Place the XP version of usbstor.inf and usbstor.PNF
files into the Vista windows/inf directory and replug the drive.
Make sure the Flash drive is plugged into a USB 2.0 port and
ReadyBoost will be available.
Worked for me on TravelDrive 2 GB p/n 32509077
OMG!!! You have to try this!
Luckily I had a flash drive that worked and copied the files over to Vista and the worked! It booted up like there was no problems! I wonder why Vista did not have these files installed. What bothered me about this problem was that the flash drive that worked was a PNY attache 2gb and the ones that did not work were a PNY attache 1gb and a 4gb...
vista sucks
i cannot believe i wasted money on vista...this thing sucks...i means nothing is compatible and everything is a problem...its more headache than anything else i hate it
Vista and USB Drives
I agree - WIndows VISTA SUCKS for hardware support and MicroS*** is making everyone follow their eveolutionary course of financial gain. Someoneday very soon, someone is going to release a FREE or GPL/OpenSource version of an OS that has features and functionality that like WinBlows and they are going to begin losing money. Personally, I can't wait for that day... I have spent waaay too much time in my lifetime diagnosing and repairing Windows F******s and I am sick and tired of it.
Yesterday I bought a Memorex Traveldrive 8GB and VISTA keeps saying it needs drivers (bullshit) and of course, VISTA won't assign it a dletter or do ANYTHING with it. As far as I'm concerned, VISTA is a p****. I'm taking this USB stick back to Circuit City, getting my money back and buying a hard drive so I can create a new bootable disk with Linux. ****
-Indrid Cold
Uninstall the driver
I tried the comment about searching system32 for the correct driver after having same problem with an old Seitec flash pen.
Vista says I already have the correct driver installed, but the pen is still not seen.
I decided to uninstall the driver, and hey presto the thing was immediately spotted without even searching for new driver.
Memorex Mini Travel Flash Drive
This is such a pain. I have my Resume on the Flash drive. I used it on XP with no problem. Now I upgraded to Vista and that was the worst thing ever. I can't access the drive and files I have stored. I tried every solution recommended....no success.
16 gig flash
i'm having a slightly different problem with mine. it will recognize it but i keep getting corrupt files with it. i'm trying to backup all my mp3s and i can only get a few hundred meg or so and then the rest won't play. i've tried two different drives on my 2 computers. both have the same issue. this is with vista also. any ideas?
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