Some of these drives try to run some autorun software and that fails. For those you have to sandblast the drive clean with DBAN and start over (sometimes.)
The maker of the drive often has updates to add their ONE TOUCH BACKUP to Vista and make it work again.
In closing the lack of detail in you is going to have me guess badly. For instance no word on the PC or if you tried other USB 2.0 ports.
Bob
Hi, I recently upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate and when I try plugging in my Iomega 80gb USB external hard-drive it says that it cannot load drivers for it. In Win XP its fine and loads them automatically, thats what should happen in Vista right? I was wandering if there is a sloution for this. Thanks, George

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