Windows vista detect usb devices

If the USB device is powered from an external source, make sure that the power from the external source is available to the device when the computer resumes.

When you use USB 1. Install the latest updates for Windows and install the latest drivers for the USB device. To install the latest updates and drivers, visit the Microsoft Windows Update Web site. For information about how to contact a vendor, visit the following Microsoft Web site:.

This section describes additional technical information about why this problem occurs and how you can change a value in the registry if other methods do not resolve the problem. Or, Device Manager indicates that there is a problem by displaying a yellow exclamation mark next to the entry for the device. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.

This problem occurs because the Plug and Play operation that is performed when the computer resumes from sleep or hibernation does not correctly recognize the USB devices or power saving settings are enabled.

When the computer is connected to many USB devices and resumes from sleep or from hibernation, multiple and concurrent Plug and Play processes are required. In this scenario, sometimes the Plug and Play operation cannot recognize all the USB devices that are connected to the Windows 7 or Windows Vista-based portable computer.

Therefore, the USB devices may not function correctly. An external power failure occurs on the powered hub or on the device when the computer is in hibernation. If other methods do not resolve the problem, you can change the value for the AdditionalCriticalWorkerThreads registry entry. To do this, follow these steps.

I am rolling back a week in System Restore to temporarily fix the ones that worked. DennisTan wrote: Manage to find a more permanent solution that worked for me.

If you know the manufacturer of your device, you can visit its website and check the support section for driver software. Okay, so then I went to Microsoft's website and downloaded a Vista plugin to possibly fix this issue, and still no resolution. No need to mess around with the registry This is the suggestion that worked for me. So simple. And just a 5 minute solution to 3 month problem.

How did you come across this answer, Dennis? Was it trial and error or supreme knowledge? I can only endorse what Dennis has written. It's the simple answer to a bothersome problem. What else can I do? I click on my computer and it comes up Removable Disk F.

It also comes up with the option to Eject or rename and when I try to eject, it says Remov Disk F is in use. Save any files on this disc and then, close the files or programs using the files before trying again.

If you choose to continue, the files will be closed, which may cause data to be lost. I am having this same issue.

My computer wont find the software i dont know what else to do. I cant re install the windows OS i have too much on here. Any help? This all happened.. I have a solution to offer that worked for me after trying everything else like deleting infcache.

First, my symptom:. That may not the the exact wording, but it should sound familiar. Anyway, Windows would search for drivers and ultimately assign a status of "Unknown device" in device manager. Any attempt to update the driver would result in a message that "Windows has determined the best driver for this device is already installed.

Other USB devices worked just fine. A drawing tablet, a scanner, and a printer worked great. Only my USB storage devices were affected. If you have tried everything else, try the following. In fact, you may want to try this before trying anything else, because it involves making very few actual changes to your computer. The first thing to try is simple: Totally unplug your computer from the outlet.

Just unplug the cable from your power supply and let it sit for half an hour. Seriously give it a try if everything else has failed. After the time has passed, plug back in and give it a try. The next isn't that hard, either. If you go back into Windows and find that your flash drives work after doing this, but it gives the message that the device could work faster using USB 2. Keep in mind, this may cause you to lose some functionality in an older device, but you can always switch it back on.

I personally can't do without my storage devices, and I haven't had any of my other devices fail to work after trying them all out. It's worth a try. I'm back up and running. There may be some more tech-savvy folks out there that can explain why the second solution works, but the first one is an old trick that has worked for multiple problems in the past when I repaired computers.

Unplugging your computer allows the power supply to get rid of any residual electricity that may be keeping your motherboard in a perpetual malfunctioning state. I tried everythn from page 1 to 10 and nothn fixed the proplem When i click on my computer its not showing up in disk drives. I use windows vista dell xps M Pls help me its really frustating. I'm in disbelief that this is still a problem. There still has been no patch for it, other than the hotfix.

And the hotfix refuses to install! When is Microsoft going to get around to fixing the new hardware driver problem? Vista has been out over a year now. How long are we supposed to use an operating system that can't use any extra hardware? I am not very 'computerfied' and have had an acer vista basic home laptop for 3 months. I have plugged my camera in today to upload and nothing happened.

System: Apple Macbook Intel Penryn 2. Thanks much, Dennis. I have tried about 30 of the fixes in this forum and others and this worked perfectly for me. I was having problems with a thumb drive and also with my Olympus digital camera. It is ridiculous that Microsoft has not published a simple fix for this. There are about forums out there that discuss this problem so it becomes a trial and error situation and you can't know which one is going to work until you go through each one -- and some of them take quite some time.

At the risk of appearing stupid, how do I do a manual search for drivers and will this work for windows os? After contacting Olympus support, they directed me to upgrade to Olympus Master 2, which by the way is a free upgrade. One of them on my Windows Vista Home Premium is recognized; but the other one it does not recognize. I fixed it as Tankyank suggested "Called tech and they said that vista turns off USB when it goes to sleep.

The fix is to go to power management click on advanced and click on USB. It will probably say disable, click enable and close. I did this and have not had a problem.

Go figure! To get to the settings in case you are not totally computer savvy with Vista yet Go into personalization: screen saver: change power settings: change plan settings: change advanced power settings: USB settings: USB selective suspend settings: mine was enabled on battery and disabled on plugged in. I changed the plugged in to enabled, it then recognized the drive but it thought my USB 2. I disabled it again, and the drive works now and it recognizes the port as USB 2.

I've tried all the stuff described in this thread and it didn't work for me. Maybe this here will help someone - very similar approach. Problem drives shown in Device Manager: either volsnap. The only way to make them work is to go into Device Manager, uninstall all the elements with yellow warning signs and then with right-click let System automatically search for new hardware. Finally totally frustrated I was about to backup all my stuff and reinstall Vista. In my case volsnap.

I was trying to fix those specific files although they weren't the actual trouble makers. That's why all the online research didn't really help me besides putting me into the right set of mind.

My last reinstallation finally worked, which I still can't believe rebooted and tested several times. In my case: rtusbstor Installing a functioning version of the drive that inserts this file into the appropriate folder.

I've been looking for a solution to this problem for two months. I've tried everything else on this page, but this is the one that worked.

Thank you for sharing this info. I purchased a computer from a computer fair that had Vista Ultimate OEM with it all sealed ready for me to install. I have waited for a long time for this product to come out and have been using XP Pro for a very long time. I have only had Vista now for under a year and have been totally dissatisfied with it. There seems to be problem after problem with it. I cant even use my portable hard drive on it! To add insult to injury you have now bought out Windows 7.

This is far superior to Vista Ultimate and I feel sure that it can cope with my portable hard drive problem. You should recall all vista version and replace with Windows 7 regardless of where they came form and how long the person has had the product. Can you give me the address and managers name so I can send my one back for an exchange.

Just sent this to Microsoft. We should not have to keep bodging the system up like the above. It should work out of the box. Vista must have been put together by an imbecile without any testing. Poor show Microsoft! This is a very old thread. But I wanted to make sure I express appreciation for these steps as they fixed an issue I'd been troubleshooting for two months now.

I have about 5 different ones; one is a Geek Squad, and it worked flawlessly every time, but every other flash drive refused to load, always prompting the Add Hardware dialog and then failing. A coworker's laptop which is identical in configuration and based on the same image worked just fine. Google Searches revealed absolutely nothing about this specific issue Following the steps above got me back up and going.

So for this For the record, I could not install any new device and could not get my Android phone to link to my PC, plus I had four unknown devices that refused to either go away or have a driver installed.

What worked for me was:. I can do step number 6 and 7. With step number 7, I located three different usbstor. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Hardware. Sign in to vote. Almost everything is working fine. I am having two problems. When I plug in a USB flash drive, or an SD memory card through the internal reader it recognizes the device and goes out to search Windows Update for a driver.

It finds a driver and begins to install it. It always fails and says "the parameter is incorrect". I have tried all of the solutions I can find so far, but I can't seem to get it working.

I did an upgrade install of Vista. I cannot do a clean install without losing all the HP provided software on my machine. I have tried uninstalling all of the USB and memory devices in the device manager. I have tried to install different drivers, manually, for the SD card. I'm out of ideas. Can someone please help me with this? Wednesday, February 21, PM. Open device manager, uninstall all unknown devices right click, uninstall so they all disappear from the list 9.

Reboot the computer Wednesday, November 21, AM. Have you tried the HP website for Vista drivers for your model laptop? I've installed all updates from HP and MS, both. It is now also impossible to go into the registry and edit out the devices so that they are picked up as "new" I have tried the point the driver search to various location "fix" but this has no effect.

Any solutions? Tuesday, February 27, PM. Have you tried uninstalling the devices in Device manager? It was suggested that I uninstall them in safe mode, reboot, and let Windows reinstall them.

I've done this before with XP successfully. However, when I tried this with Vista, it imediately reinstalled them even in safe mode and I still have the same problem. Friday, March 2, PM. I am having the exact same problem with all of my USB flash drives -- I've tried a Sandisk Cruzer Profile, several generic flash drives and all with the same result. Every single one of them wants a driver, which it cannot locate either locally or online. What the heck is the deal?

Wednesday, March 7, PM. I am having USB problems too. I will put in a support ticket tomorrow or somfin and see what happens. Thursday, March 8, AM. I keep getting the message "windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device. Monday, March 12, PM. Yep, I've tried that too. No change.

Thanks for all the input so far I too had the same problem. I followed the thread on the following forum: "Parameter is incorrect" installing driver for any USB storage device A solution was posted by darkprojekt. I uninstalled the Netgear software and deleted the Netgear SC folder to prevent automatic reinstall, and all my USB thumb drives are now working fine Neil.

Thursday, March 15, PM. That appears to have worked! I noticed when trying to install the driver, Windows initially sees it as USB 2. Anyone else having similar issues? Sunday, March 18, PM. Tuesday, March 20, AM. Thursday, April 5, AM. I had the exact problem. Thursday, April 12, AM. For what it's worth, the error message is as follows: Cannot initialize application.

Device not found. Monday, April 16, PM. Saturday, May 19, AM. Monday, May 21, PM. Well MAZ, the story of my life. My Dell Latitude D gets a rating of 3. Well thank you for your detailed description of not only the right solution but a clear exsample of my own frustration pitty to little foul lang. Bottom line the solution works and now I can carry on with my life.

Friday, May 25, AM. I just got a new e-machines T with vista home premium. Pluged in a 2GB flash drive to run readyboost. The drive would dissapere. Called tech and they said that vista turns off USB when it goes to sleep. It will probably say disable , click enable and close.

If this works for you too let me know? Thursday, May 31, PM. I must be doing something wrong as to these postings! Firstly I am running Windows Home Premium 64 bit which might make a difference. Rebooted, and re-plugged in my Flash Drive, device recognised BUT I get an error message "Windows found Driver software for this device but encountered error whilst trying to install it - USB Mass storage Device - The system cannot find the file specified.

I have been in contact with the supplier of the Flash Disk who referred me to this forum. Thirdly, I have checked within Vista as to Power Management, well my Vista 64 bit edition doesn't have such a setting, plus the power setting I can access say nothing about USB etc, just how long the monitor or drive should be on before entering sleep mode. Friday, June 1, PM. I got the same problem, but nothing seems to work Can someone please help?

My laptop does recognizes the hardware photo camera, sd card. Please help, I'm desperate The problem is that all NEW hardware which uses the vista standard driver don't get installed anymore. But ALL als tried a joystick new hardware I attach is recognized but vista can't find the driver.

I guess we thought that it was a usb problem because most new hardware uses hardware Thursday, June 14, PM. I read this solution that seems to have worked for me Seems to be a Vista bug Saturday, June 16, AM. Mark Haggitt wrote: I read this solution that seems to have worked for me Tuesday, June 19, PM.

Thursday, June 21, AM. Hi pipc, Well I had similar issues the only difference was that I did a clean installation. Have you tried the solution supplied by MAZ in this forum? That worked for me perhaps have a look at that one. Maybe Vista SP1 will resolve these issues Only time will tell. Uninstalling the Netgear software worked for me. I still have a problem with a PC Card serial port, but everything else seems to be working fine.

I was just told about a hot fix that might help the serial port, but haven't had a chance to track it down yet. Thursday, June 21, PM. If you're not comfortable with the registry, don't do this! Solution: 1. Right click it and select 'Update Device Driver. I hope I was able to help anybody who is still having this issue. For more information, see USB host-side drivers in Windows. For handling common function logic for USB devices. For more information, see USB device-side drivers in Windows.

For supporting Type-C connectors. Media Transfer Protocol Devices Wpdusb. Windows 8. See WinUSB. A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article.

Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix Download Available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article.

If this section does not appear, submit a request to Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix. Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft website:.

If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it.

Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Note In Windows 8 and Windows Server , you must create the registry key before you restart the computer after you have applied this hotfix.