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USB Flash Drive not working on Windows Vista?

May 12, 2008 by Wayne Small 7 Comments

I picked up a 16G Corsair Flash Voyager when I was in the US last month from Frys. It worked fine on my laptop but refused to work on my desktop. Instead I got the dialog box on below requesting drivers for it. Naturally I didn’t have drivers for it.

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I did some digging and found this article on their website. The Corsair website had some helpful FAQ’s that I found at this link it had the instructions below.

Please try the following instructions to get your USB devices working properly in Windows Vista: 1. Go to Local Disk (C)/Windows/System32/Driverstore/Filerepository 2. Go to usbstor.inf ( click the one that is newest) 3. Copy the usbstor.inf and usbstor.PNF files. 4. After you have copied the two files go to Windows/inf folder and paste the files in that folder. Now your USB devices should work.

Now – in my case, I found that the usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf files were both missing from the Windows/inf folder. I don’t know why – but they were. Copy and replace as per instructions and it’s working fine now.

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    April 9, 2009 at 4:23 am

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