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Vista Ultimate and Removable Storage Disk

Mar 8, 2007 3:38AM PST

I've just installed Vista Ultimate and some how i'm unable to Plug n play my external hard disk. Vista keeps askin to install a driver, but here is NO driver avaliable. this goes the same with Flash drives too...
i've checked the USB port and its working fine.

Pls help!

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Same thing
Jun 18, 2007 8:45AM PDT

I have an external HD enclosure with a 360 gig HD (WD) in it and on XP works great, Vista sees it and trys to install but chokes each time and says "

The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 2Cool
The parameter is incorrect.
To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver."

This is on a Dual Core system with 2 gig ram (SLI Mobo).
as it is an enclosure no drivers are available, and great and gloriuos vista says that the drive is "OEI-USB2 Ultra Disk Drive USB Device"

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Try this
Jun 18, 2007 11:39AM PDT

Turn off UAC and then plug in the drive and see if the problem goes away. Also try all the USB ports, they are not always the same. And also plug and unplug and then plug, even under XP sometimnes it takes more tahn once to get the driver to install.

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Parameter is Incorrect fix...
Jul 10, 2007 12:36PM PDT

I just spent 8 hours and 4 phone calls with Microsoft.. ultimately they read a forum post which I directed them to regarding INF files and they followed the instructions and everything works perfect now. Here is a copy of the post from forums.microsoft.com.

""I've been experiencing the same problem with usb storage devices for the last few weeks and have visited numerous forums discussing it. After having no joy I decided to take a look around my system folders and have now got these devices working again. While looking around I discovered 2 points of interest:

In C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository I had two folders named "usbstor.inf" but each one had a different set of numbers attached to the end of the folder name. - could this be where part of the problem lies?

When i looked in my C:\Windows\inf folder i discovered the usbstor.inf and usb stor.pnf files were missing - this definitely had to be an issue.
Once I discovered these anomalies, I proceeded to copy the pnf and inf files from the most recently updated usbstor.inf folder to C:\Windows\inf. I then went back to the update driver wizard, pointed to the inf folder and what do you know but they all started working again.

As yet I have not had any problem with other usb devices so I don't know whether this solution applies to everything. However I have noticed that most people are having this problem with devices that register themselves as a mass storage device, including most new printers, cameras, etc. Basically anything with on board memory tells windows it is also a mass storage device, so maybe this is what is causing the problem with those particular usb devices.

Hope this helps""

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=1332146&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=2