Thanks to Windows Vista screwing something up on the install, every time I plugged a USB (or firewire) device into my computer, it would decide it couldn’t find any drivers for it, and asked me to tell it to manually search for the drivers (after which point they did eventually install)… So after installing about 3-5 drivers for a simple USB flash drive, it would work.

However a friend of mine let me borrow his Experts-Exchange account in our Design Workshop lecture today at Uni to search their database, and I found someone with the same problem as I had:

The solution is to copy the C:\Windows\inf folder from another fully working Vista installation over the top of the original*.

I’ve tried two other USB flash drives, and both worked within seconds of me plugging them in.

Yet another Microsoft product declared “finished” before it’s ready… Anyone else have/had this problem?

- Fr3d

* I actually renamed the original, and then copied the other computer’s inf folder, as Vista wouldn’t let me overwrite the folder