Now with having copied over the files, I can plugin other USB enclosures with different drives and they too are working. So although I could never add another HD, at least I had the one. One more thing worthy of mention is this machine was an update from Windows Vista, and the USB hard drive that worked was configured back than. Maybe it has to do with VMware, and some of it's updates over the years. In "c:\windows\inf." I can say with certainty that I did not delete the files from that folder, but something is common in both of our situations. I too have VMware workstation, and had the missing files I've been struggling with this for a number of years, and had only one USB Hard Drive that worked. I'm very excited to finally have a solution for this problem.
USB MASS STORAGE DEVICE WINDOWS 10 DRIVER HOW TO
So it would appear that the USB ports are functioning properly but for some reasons, my Windows 64-bit is unable to load the driver.Īny idea how to fix this besides a "nuke it from orbit" and format/reinstall Windows? Here's the weird thing, I have VMware Workstation installed on this computer and if I power on a VM that runs Windows 7 32-bit as the Guest OS and connect the USB storage devices to the guest OS via VMware Workstation, the USB storage devices work! This happens to ALL USB Mass storage device, and it doesn't matter which port I plug the device into.
USB MASS STORAGE DEVICE WINDOWS 10 DRIVER INSTALL
The exact message is this: Windows found driver software for your device but encountered error while attempting to install it. When I go into the Device Manager console and choose to manually update the driver, then point it to the C:\Windows (with search for sub-directories enabled), it detects the USB Mass Storageĭriver but complains that it is unable to load it. Windows keeps reporting that it is unable to find the driver.
ButĪny USB external drive, thumdrive or USB card reader with flash cards inserted into the USB port of my computer won't work. I have USB keyboard, mouse and even a USB audio (wireless headset) all working fine on the computer. Everything seems to work fine except for USB mass storage devices.
I have a rather strange problem with my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
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