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Thursday, January 24, 2008

How to Install new USB drivers on VISTA

Installed vista a month ago and donno could not install USB drives. Every time vista asked 4 a disk to install the driver. I never faced such trouble with an XP. neways surfed the net for a while and came across this amazing link which helped me 2 install my new 4Gb data traveler from Kingston in no time.

Here is the link:
http://teknobabble.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/vista-driver-problems-installing-a-usb-media-reader-a-solution/

Here are the steps:
1. Go to C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository
2. Choose the most recent usbstor folder,Open the folder,You’ll see a number of files…
3. Select and copy usbstor.inf
4. Now go to C:\Windows\Inf
Paste the usbstor.inf file into this folder (On my system there was no usbstor.inf file already in this folder).
5. Now try again to install the reader
When Vista reports it cannot find a driver direct it to C:\Windows\Inf
If all goes well you will see the following information from Vista

Thanks 2 the blogger...If any doubts plzz let me know....

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