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Portable Hard Drive Problems
ok so i will try again and try and get a response.
i have 3 portable hard drives: a WD My Book a Vantec and a Noontec all 3 are Sata to USB drives. everytime i install one i get a: "The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) A service installation section in this INF is invalid." now these are plug and play for xp, but why not for vista? am i missing a driver? because every time i install one i get the above message. what makes it worse is that as far as i can tell is that there are no drivers for these drives as they are plug and play! :P as you can see this is doing my head in. I have always had problems with these drives and now that my desktop computer (running XP which never had problems) has died, i can't get them to run! i am currently running Vista Home Premium (32 bit) with 1 gig of ram. HELP |
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Portable Hard Drive Problems
Dre Carter wrote:
ok so i will try again and try and get a response. i have 3 portable hard drives: a WD My Book a Vantec and a Noontec all 3 are Sata to USB drives. everytime i install one i get a: "The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) A service installation section in this INF is invalid." now these are plug and play for xp, but why not for vista? am i missing a driver? because every time i install one i get the above message. what makes it worse is that as far as i can tell is that there are no drivers for these drives as they are plug and play! :P as you can see this is doing my head in. Even though it's "plug 'n play" the applicable usb drivers for each unit that is hooked up to a system must be present and installed properly. Now as you state you have no drivers for the harddrive units but Vista should come with either generic USB drivers or specific drivers from the manufacturer. I would suspect that Vista is trying to install the drivers (from it's collection of usb drivers on your system hard drive) when you hook up the external units....it's reading the INF file to see what drivers are needed but it can't get past a certain section in the INF due to an error....therefore it barfs and generates the error message you are seeing. I have always had problems with these drives Typo??? and now that my desktop computer (running XP which never had problems) has died, i can't get them to run! Here's a similar situation to yours which I think maybe applicable to solving your problem. quote on I could fix this problem by tushar43 - 6/20/07 12:00 PM In reply to: A service installation section in the INF is invalid by Richard N I had similar problem while installing USB network device on my machine with windows XP. I was getting same error "a service installation section in this inf is invalid" What i did was i opened the .inf driver file, went to "XP" section of the driver skipping 98,ME, 2000 portions and then saw a line "ServiceBinary = %12%\usb8023.sys" when i went to windows\system32\drivers folder, i saw that there was an existing file usb8023x.sys so i replaced the line in the .inf driver file which i had (of course backed up original one) and changed the line to usb8023x.sys from usb8023.sys and then tried providing the same driver again and Wooohaaa.. it worked. Right now my devices works awesome. This is 100% working fix, let me know if it works for you which i am sure will. Reply Permalink Report offensive post Post 5 of 9 woked for my issue - "service installation section invalid" by destoo - 7/1/07 5:38 PM In reply to: I could fix this problem by tushar43 Worked for me. I'm using a "stripped to the bone" version of XP Pro, and it's been happening on my camera driver. (Kodak C633 Easyshare) It was looking for usbscan.sys. I had copied it to the /system32/ folder, but the %12% stands for /system32/drivers worked like a charm. (for my problem. Thanks!) Reply Permalink Report offensive post Post 6 of 9 How do I open the .inf file for the driver by tstewar - 1/28/08 10:48 AM In reply to: I could fix this problem by tushar43 How do I open the .inf file for the driver? Reply Permalink Report offensive post Post 7 of 9 Open .inf file by onzey - 2/2/08 2:04 PM In reply to: How do I open the .inf file for the driver by tstewar Right click on the file and then click Open. Reply Permalink Report offensive post quote off |
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Portable Hard Drive Problems
I have same problems as Dre Carter with Vista Home Premium, service pack 1.
"The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) A service installation section in this INF is invalid." Seems that I too am unable to Install my new external hard drive SimpleDrive SP-U35/320, or for that matter run kodak easy share camera, or mp3) thru computer USB 2.0 ports. VIsta says I need to update drivers, but nothing will update or download (even with disk in DVD drive). I read thru thread and suggested fixes are referenced for XP, but not for Vista. Are fixes any different for Vista? Seems that Vista does not have explorer as earlier Window OPS, so how do I go about finding related .inf files in Vista? |
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