Hard drive drivers

> Diamontina Cocktail wrote:

>> I am constantly attaching new HDs to my computer via a USB interface.
>> Under XP, if I attach a new (as in new to the system. The drive may be
>> new or used) HD, XP would say it had found a new device, locate the
>> driver on my C drive and then install it and tell me it is ready. Under
>> Vista, I have to click through a series of questions such as "Install
>> driver", "Don't search online", "I don't have a disk", "search my hard
>> drive" which I then always have set to system32 folder whereupon the
>> driver is found and the hard drive installed and ready to use with my
>> system.
>>
>> What goes on here? Have I done something wrong? If I haven't, why do I
>> have to keep playing questions and answers when, under XP, I never did?

>
> Yes, it's a Vista bug, and MS is working on a fix.

>>> What goes on here? Have I done something wrong? If I haven't, why do I
>>> have to keep playing questions and answers when, under XP, I never did?

>>
>> Yes, it's a Vista bug, and MS is working on a fix.

>
> They had the evaluation version out for _how_ long, yet now there is
> _still_ a bug of this nature in the retail release? How
> very...Microsoft...

> Feleting the infcache file is a standard Microsoft recommendation for
> hardware problems or when Vista drivers fail to install or fail to be
> recognized by the OS as Vista drivers.
> This sounds like it should work but in the Microsoft Universe naught is as
> it seems.
> In the real world it can be impossible to delete this file because of the
> hit/ mostly miss security built into Vista.
> Even if you boot from the installation DVD Vista still may not let you
> delete this file: been there, done that.
> And even if you do delete the file do not feel as if you have arrived in
> The Promised Land.
> More likely than not nothing will change.
>

> Diamontina Cocktail wrote:

>> I am constantly attaching new HDs to my computer via a USB interface.
>> Under XP, if I attach a new (as in new to the system. The drive may be
>> new or used) HD, XP would say it had found a new device, locate the
>> driver on my C drive and then install it and tell me it is ready. Under
>> Vista, I have to click through a series of questions such as "Install
>> driver", "Don't search online", "I don't have a disk", "search my hard
>> drive" which I then always have set to system32 folder whereupon the
>> driver is found and the hard drive installed and ready to use with my
>> system.
>>
>> What goes on here? Have I done something wrong? If I haven't, why do I
>> have to keep playing questions and answers when, under XP, I never did?

>
> Yes, it's a Vista bug, and MS is working on a fix. Meanwhile, the fix
> is to delete your C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 because it is most likely
> corrupted. You will need to edit its file permissions to grant Full
> Control to the Users group before you can delete it.
>
> Please post back with your results, positive or negative.
>
> Thanks.
>