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Hey man, thanks. You got me by a few years :) I gave up the compiler the day Quarterdeck offered me a job in QA. And they are long gone!
Objectively speaking... Windows 7 seems to be having trouble with USB Mass Storage Class drivers. Specifically, "new" USB devices e.g. memory keys, USB hard drives that have never been plugged into my PC before refuse to install. You get the "Installing Drivers" balloon and then it errors out and you get the "sad" sound and it says "No drivers found". Now these are generic devices all using DISK.SYS and PARTMGR.SYS so there really is no "special" driver for these.
Mass storage devices I have been using all along are fine, as are non-storage USB devices. But it would be nice to plug in other things and have them work as well.
So I took several steps including
- deleting the INFCACHE
- messing around with the registry keys that led me to...
- do a repair install
- forcing the drivers myself, which gets me as far as Windows admitting "yes this is a disk, but the driver will not load due to an error." The error code is 10, which is "file not found".
I can add that VMware Workstation 7.1 is on here, and the VMware USB virtual device handler is quite annoying... that being said, three different VMs all running as guests on this host (one W2K8, one Win 7 with BitLocker, and one XP MCE) ALL read the disk fine, even as the host OS cannot. If I disconnect the USB device from the VMware guest (which forces it to connect to host), I get the sad sound again/
I've entertained the notion that it's VMware that is screwing things up... but I can't really lose that, it's crucial to my work. I would like to avoid either nukeing Windows or repair-installing again, because the drivers I'd need to reload are plenty and fickle. What I'd like to do ideally is understand the problem well, so it doesn't repeat (that's my old QA training :))
Everyone in BSOD has been very helpful in the past and present including them figuring out that my old Logitech Webcam was crashing the kernel (that was a doozy) so I am (still) optimistic that someone will have a stroke of genius. :)
I like this forum. although folks like Dell necessitate it, and it shouldn't be that way.
Thanks again
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