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Found New Hardware - Unknown Device - Nothing Shown in Device Mana
Hi,
I receive a message window at Vista start-up stating that Windows has found new hardware. The hardware is identified as unknown on the message window. When I go to Device Manager nothing shows as being a problem. There is no unknown device folder, nor can I find any devices which are identified as being a problem. If I choose to click on "Ask me again later", I actually need to click on it 7 times before the Window will close. The system is a quad-core set up as a RAID 1. This problem did not appear until I installed BootIt NG and reconfigured the hard drive. I know I can click on ignore when the message window comes up at start-up; but, I would like to make sure I'm not ignoring a real problem. Thanks for any help that can be shared. Jeff |
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Found New Hardware - Unknown Device - Nothing Shown in Device
Hi R. C.,
Thanks for your reply. No... the system has a built-in card reader that is properly recognized in Device Manager. What is strange is that two days ago when I opened Device Manager, there was a category for "Storage Volume". Under that category there were seven (7) instances of "Unknown device" and five (5) instances of "Generic volume". The category for all 12 instances was "Storage volume". I have restarted the system several times since I observed the Storage Volume category. Now when I open Device Manager the category is missing. Although it is no longer present in Device Manager, I still receive the warning message when Windows starts that requires me to click on "Ask me again later" seven times to clear the warning. (I am tempted to click on the ignore option; but, I wanted to understand the problem before doing so.) Thanks again for your help. Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Jeff "R. C. White" wrote: Hi, Jeff. If I choose to click on "Ask me again later", I actually need to click on it 7 times before the Window will close. Did you recently install a 7-in-1 media card reader? A USB card reader that supports SD, CF, Memory Stick, etc.? RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) "Jeff" wrote in message ... Hi, I receive a message window at Vista start-up stating that Windows has found new hardware. The hardware is identified as unknown on the message window. When I go to Device Manager nothing shows as being a problem. There is no unknown device folder, nor can I find any devices which are identified as being a problem. If I choose to click on "Ask me again later", I actually need to click on it 7 times before the Window will close. The system is a quad-core set up as a RAID 1. This problem did not appear until I installed BootIt NG and reconfigured the hard drive. I know I can click on ignore when the message window comes up at start-up; but, I would like to make sure I'm not ignoring a real problem. Thanks for any help that can be shared. Jeff |
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Found New Hardware - Unknown Device - Nothing Shown in Device
Jeff --
I recently converted one of my SATA drives (hanging off a Promise FastTek 376) to Dynamic Drive and now I am having the exact problem as you. If I go to Device Manager and select the "Show hidden devices", the Storage Volumes category shows up and under it, I see three "Unknown Devices" and six "Generic Volumes". Were you able to resolve this issue? |