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USB Flash drives not recognized
Wow, where can I find a newsgroup devoted to U3 flash drives? I just bought one
90 minutes ago and I'm not sure I should use it on my 98SE machine if I still want to use U3 on an XP machine. U3 changes the whole POV of a flashdrive for me, so I don't wanna wreck it prematurely. Thank You Staples for confounding a simple purchase for me. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
There shouldn't be ANY problems between a 98 & XP machine. The default
drivers for the U3 work just fine on my XP machines. The driver issue was with my new Vista machine. "Cymbal Man Freq." wrote: Wow, where can I find a newsgroup devoted to U3 flash drives? I just bought one 90 minutes ago and I'm not sure I should use it on my 98SE machine if I still want to use U3 on an XP machine. U3 changes the whole POV of a flashdrive for me, so I don't wanna wreck it prematurely. Thank You Staples for confounding a simple purchase for me. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
The removal of the U3 programs might be the problem. If your thumb drive is
set up like mine, then it came with two partitions, one with U3 and the other is the main data partition. Have you checked the SanDisk website? What I'd do is visit the site, run the necessary software/Drivers to RESTORE your thumb drive back to it's original state. Then you have a way of communicating with SanDisk Support, which is what I'd suggest you do. "ke3pup" wrote: Mine did come with U3 installed but i removed it using the installer as well and formatted it with NTFS but my Desktop never automatically found the drivers for it, i had to point the installer to "C:\Windows" for it to be able to find the drivers! Since installing the Drivers, now every time i re-insert the USB card in, Vista tells me it needs to look for driver for "Unidentified Device”, so again i have to direct it to "C:\Windows" in which case the "Unidentified Device" becomes "SanDisk Cruzer Micro" when it finds the driver. i would do anything to find out why this happens. So am i willing to do debugging, YES, just tell me how. thanx |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
maxinminn wrote:
The removal of the U3 programs might be the problem. If your thumb drive is set up like mine, then it came with two partitions, one with U3 and the other is the main data partition... I have a Kingston which had U3 on it until I deleted it with the U3 removal tool. The only difference I noticed is that used to appear in Vista as a CDROM disk (!) and now it's back to being an ordinary USB drive. No driver problems either way, and it still works. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
ke3pup wrote:
i would do anything to find out why this happens. So am i willing to do debugging, YES, just tell me how. I posted a response to you in 'Vista Playing Dumb' a while ago before I saw this post. First fetch the process monitor utility and spend some time getting used to it. Learn how to tell it to print only the info you want to see, so you aren't overwhelmed with data. It's just a tool to display info, so it shouldn't be able to screw up your machine any further than it is ;o) After that, my approach would be to use it to see where Vista is searching for its drivers. Is it looking for the wrong drivers in the right place, or the right drivers in the wrong place, or maybe both. Vista really shouldn't be looking for *any* drivers, so that's the real puzzle to solve, but I'd need to work backwards from the end towards the beginning of this bug. You'll probably need more advice along the way, but get started first and you'll probably get some ideas of your own to try. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
I just bought an Acer 9410 laptop and a 2G Cruzer Micro.. It does absolutely
nothing except give an invalid USB device message... no driver opportunity. San Disk was no help at all. Just very rude off shore support which I ended hanging up on.. I guess I will try the U3 site for fix and if nothing...remove U3. Hate to do that but...... "maxinminn" wrote in message news There shouldn't be ANY problems between a 98 & XP machine. The default drivers for the U3 work just fine on my XP machines. The driver issue was with my new Vista machine. "Cymbal Man Freq." wrote: Wow, where can I find a newsgroup devoted to U3 flash drives? I just bought one 90 minutes ago and I'm not sure I should use it on my 98SE machine if I still want to use U3 on an XP machine. U3 changes the whole POV of a flashdrive for me, so I don't wanna wreck it prematurely. Thank You Staples for confounding a simple purchase for me. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
"Don" wrote: maxinminn wrote: The removal of the U3 programs might be the problem. If your thumb drive is set up like mine, then it came with two partitions, one with U3 and the other is the main data partition... I have a Kingston which had U3 on it until I deleted it with the U3 removal tool. The only difference I noticed is that used to appear in Vista as a CDROM disk (!) and now it's back to being an ordinary USB drive. No driver problems either way, and it still works. Well I'd go back to the Kingston site and there is a Vista compatible launchpad update. D/L it and run it. What it does is: removes the old U3 programs, then safely makes a copy of any data on the drive, reformats and then repartitions the drive, then puts the new U3 software on the drive, and then finally copiies the data back onto the data partition. That should get you a fully functional U3 system again. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
I have the problem with my 3 USB key, but only on 1 of my 2 PC
* Sometimes it ask me to install dirver. the trick is to indicates c:\windows\... driverstore ... then it will (at least) install 3 different driver ... and it finally work * Nevertheless, very often, it take 5-10mn to recognize (eg appears into explorer as a disk, and light turn on on the USB key), if i log off it will be recognised (or if i wait 5-10 mn). * The only differnce i saw between my 2 PC, is that the 1 with problem has a supplmentary item : in management tools / disk, i have "removable disk ", not only "disk mangment" (sorry my Vista is french, so it's a translation of french word, so the english real name is may be slightly diffrent) "Don" a écrit dans le message de ... ke3pup wrote: i would do anything to find out why this happens. So am i willing to do debugging, YES, just tell me how. I posted a response to you in 'Vista Playing Dumb' a while ago before I saw this post. First fetch the process monitor utility and spend some time getting used to it. Learn how to tell it to print only the info you want to see, so you aren't overwhelmed with data. It's just a tool to display info, so it shouldn't be able to screw up your machine any further than it is ;o) After that, my approach would be to use it to see where Vista is searching for its drivers. Is it looking for the wrong drivers in the right place, or the right drivers in the wrong place, or maybe both. Vista really shouldn't be looking for *any* drivers, so that's the real puzzle to solve, but I'd need to work backwards from the end towards the beginning of this bug. You'll probably need more advice along the way, but get started first and you'll probably get some ideas of your own to try. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
TMi wrote:
I have the problem with my 3 USB key, but only on 1 of my 2 PC * Sometimes it ask me to install driver. Does that machine boot okay when a USB key is plugged in? the trick is to indicates c:\windows\... driverstore ... then it will (at least) install 3 different driver ... and it finally work What drivers does Vista install? Any interesting messages in C:\windows\inf\setupapi.app.log or setupapi.dev.log? I'm seeing entries about my Kingston USB stick in those logs -- and the strange thing is that I see entries saying that DriverUpdate exited with FAILURE status(??) but I have no problems of any kind with any of my 3 USB sticks. Very strange! You have two machines which behave differently, so we might get some information by comparing the log files from the two machines after plugging the same USB stick in each machine. * Nevertheless, very often, it take 5-10mn to recognize (eg appears into explorer as a disk, and light turn on on the USB key), if i log off it will be recognised (or if i wait 5-10 mn). * The only differnce i saw between my 2 PC, is that the 1 with problem has a supplmentary item : in management tools / disk, i have "removable disk "... Yes, my USB stick appears as a removable drive also, and I have no problems with drivers. You see that on the machine *with* problems, is that correct? Thanks for the information. |
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USB Flash drives not recognized
Does that machine boot okay when a USB key is plugged in?
YES, and USB is perfectly & immediatly recognised What drivers does Vista install? I think it's disk.sys ; usbstrore.inf ; parmgr.sys (i've not checked) Any interesting messages in C:\windows\inf\setupapi.app.log or setupapi.dev.log? Here somme examples 1) dvi: Enumerating INFs from path list 'C:\Windows\INF' !!! inf: Error searching published INFs - likely system corruption! dvi: Created Driver Node: dvi: HardwareID - USB\Class_08&SubClass_06&Prot_50 dvi: InfName - C:\Windows\INF\usbstor.inf 2) !!! sto: Inf file does not contain CatalogFile directive for the specified processor architecture. Inf = e:\windows\inf\usbstor.inf inf: Opened INF: 'e:\windows\inf\usbstor.inf' ([strings] src = normal) inf: Opened INF: 'e:\windows\inf\LAYOUT.INF' ([strings] src = normal) !!! sto: The driver package has a reference to a missing file. File Name = qv2kux.sys, Error = 80070002 !!! sto: GetCopyFilesListFromInf() failed. Error = 80070002, Inf = e:\windows\inf\usbstor.inf !!! sto: Failed to copy the Driver Package to C:\Users\Thibaut & Trinidad\{664648da-1798-4a1f-abbc-9150aed25765}. Error = 80070002 !!! sto: Failed to copy driver package from source into temporary client location. Error = 80070002, SrcInf = e:\windows\inf\usbstor.inf, DestPath = C:\Users\Thibaut & Trinidad\{664648da-1798-4a1f-abbc-9150aed25765} sto: {Staging Package To Driver Store - phase 1 exit(80070002)} ! inf: Add to Driver Store unsuccessful !!! inf: returning failure to SetupCopyOEMInf inf: {SetupCopyOEMInf exit (0x00000002)} 22:14:45.952 !!! ndv: Driver Package import failed for new device...installing NULL driver. Yes, my USB stick appears as a removable drive also, and I have no problems with drivers. You see that on the machine *with* problems, is that correct? Yes, on both machine my 3 differents USB keys (one is mini hard disk) appears in explorer with the same icon image. But, but, the difference btw my to 2 PC is not on the explorer, is not in the device manager neither. The difference i see is when i open the "computer manager", in the part where you can manage your disk i have an item which is not on the PC which is working fine In the bad PC i have (in french) 1) Stockage/Stockage amovible translation (approx) - storage/removable storage 2) Stockage/gestion de disque translation (approx) - disk/disk management (where you can see the partition etc, change the drive letter .....etc) In the good Pc i've only 2) Stockage/gestion de disque translation (approx) - disk/disk management So for me that's a strange difference Hope this help. "Don" a écrit dans le message de ... TMi wrote: I have the problem with my 3 USB key, but only on 1 of my 2 PC * Sometimes it ask me to install driver. Does that machine boot okay when a USB key is plugged in? the trick is to indicates c:\windows\... driverstore ... then it will (at least) install 3 different driver ... and it finally work What drivers does Vista install? Any interesting messages in C:\windows\inf\setupapi.app.log or setupapi.dev.log? I'm seeing entries about my Kingston USB stick in those logs -- and the strange thing is that I see entries saying that DriverUpdate exited with FAILURE status(??) but I have no problems of any kind with any of my 3 USB sticks. Very strange! You have two machines which behave differently, so we might get some information by comparing the log files from the two machines after plugging the same USB stick in each machine. * Nevertheless, very often, it take 5-10mn to recognize (eg appears into explorer as a disk, and light turn on on the USB key), if i log off it will be recognised (or if i wait 5-10 mn). * The only differnce i saw between my 2 PC, is that the 1 with problem has a supplmentary item : in management tools / disk, i have "removable disk "... Yes, my USB stick appears as a removable drive also, and I have no problems with drivers. You see that on the machine *with* problems, is that correct? Thanks for the information. |