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Unknown device messages for generic volumes
I have a rather annoying display of new hardware messages that appear when
Vista first boots. They can never find the appropriate driver, and if I ask for the new hardware to be ignored in future, the computer will then fail to boot in Vista. I have tracked these to the disk partitions on the second drive. The device manager lists three Generic volumes and three Unknown devices under Storage Volumes. These correspond to the six partiitions on the computer. If I delete a partition on the second drive I get one less new hardware message. I originally partitioned the system for Vista using Partition Magic under XP, and at first everything was OK, but then the problem started later when I adjusted the partitions on the second drive again using Partition Magic under XP. From then on any partition on the second drive including any created using Vista's own storage management has come up as an unknown device. Despite this the volumes are all available. Vista is actually installed on one of them. It's just very annoying. Does anyone know how to fix it ? |
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Unknown device messages for generic volumes
Well, reinstalling after all of the work that I have done with applications
and personalising the system is not a very appealing thought. Browsing other fora however I found some advice to delete C:\Windows\inf\infcache.1 and that seems to do the trick. Permissions on the file need to be set in order to delete it. "koze" wrote: Yes start again without using PM, it's known to be incompatible with Vista! There are other (even freeware) tools that are compatible. Ko. "David Edwards" David schreef in bericht ... I have a rather annoying display of new hardware messages that appear when Vista first boots. They can never find the appropriate driver, and if I ask for the new hardware to be ignored in future, the computer will then fail to boot in Vista. I have tracked these to the disk partitions on the second drive. The device manager lists three Generic volumes and three Unknown devices under Storage Volumes. These correspond to the six partiitions on the computer. If I delete a partition on the second drive I get one less new hardware message. I originally partitioned the system for Vista using Partition Magic under XP, and at first everything was OK, but then the problem started later when I adjusted the partitions on the second drive again using Partition Magic under XP. From then on any partition on the second drive including any created using Vista's own storage management has come up as an unknown device. Despite this the volumes are all available. Vista is actually installed on one of them. It's just very annoying. Does anyone know how to fix it ? |
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