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USB to IDE driver for External HDD
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USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 2:42 am
Posted by vince
(10 messages posted)
just bought a ritmo external hdd case. windows vista keeps asking for a "USB to IDE"
driver. I can't find it anywhere. Whats going on? Win XP had this driver inbuilt.
Can someone tell me where i can find this driver
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Monday, December 11, 2006 at 5:48 am
Posted by Ray B
(393 messages posted)
Vince,
I've been using a couple different external USB harddrives (different brand cases,
too), with no problem in Vista. The needed driver is recognized almost immediately
once the USB connection is made. It may be that your external harddrive case has
a peculiar proprietary chipset or the actuall harddrive in the case is not fully
connected to the case.
--Ray B
On Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 2:42 am, vince wrote:
>just bought a ritmo external hdd case. windows vista keeps asking for a "USB to
IDE"
>driver. I can't find it anywhere. Whats going on? Win XP had this driver inbuilt.
>Can someone tell me where i can find this driver
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Posted by Israel
(3 messages posted)
i am using Vista also and USB external worked fine until week ago than start asking
for USB to IDE driver and not recognize any external ....
still looking for solution
On Monday, December 11, 2006 at 5:48 am, Ray B wrote:
>Vince,
>
>I've been using a couple different external USB harddrives (different brand cases,
>too), with no problem in Vista. The needed driver is recognized almost immediately
>once the USB connection is made. It may be that your external harddrive case has
>a peculiar proprietary chipset or the actuall harddrive in the case is not fully
>connected to the case.
>
>--Ray B
>
>
>
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Monday, January 15, 2007 at 11:16 am
Posted by Greg
(1 messages posted)
Hi I found a solution to this problem, I think the problem is that windows isnt checking
the generic drivers that are installed with Vista.
Here is the solution:
1. Connect your drive
2. When prompted that windows needs a driver click "locate and install driver software"
3. Once you are prompted for the disc click "I dont have the disc. Show me other
options."
4. Now click on "Browse my computer for driver software"
5. In the box type in the location of your system32 directory.. (in mine and most
cases it will be "C:\Windows\System32" ) MAKE SURE the Include subfolders box is
ticked and click next.
6. Windows will find the driver and install it..
7. Windows may ask you for the disc a few more times, just follow steps 3 to 5 again
and the drivers will install perfectly.
This is probably just one of the may bug in vista.. I am happy I found a solution
for it though and I'm sure you will be too.
enjoy!!
Greg N
On Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 11:48 pm, Israel wrote:
>i am using Vista also and USB external worked fine until week ago than start asking
>for USB to IDE driver and not recognize any external ....
>still looking for solution
>
>
>
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Monday, January 15, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Posted by Israel
(3 messages posted)
Dear Greg
This is amazing ...
Your instruction work fine exactly as you say.
Appreciates the effort
Good luck
Regards,
Israel Kessler
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Monday, January 15, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Posted by Israel
(3 messages posted)
hi Vince
Greg got the solution
follow the instructions
Here is the solution:
1. Connect your drive
2. When prompted that windows needs a driver click "locate and install driver software"
3. Once you are prompted for the disc click "I dont have the disc. Show me other
options."
4. Now click on "Browse my computer for driver software"
5. In the box type in the location of your system32 directory.. (in mine and most
cases it will be "C:\Windows\System32" ) MAKE SURE the Include subfolders box is
ticked and click next.
6. Windows will find the driver and install it..
7. Windows may ask you for the disc a few more times, just follow steps 3 to 5 again
and the drivers will install perfectly.
This is probably just one of the may bug in vista.. I am happy I found a solution
for it though and I'm sure you will be too.
enjoy!!
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Monday, January 22, 2007 at 5:37 am
Posted by aerofoiler
(1 messages posted)
Thanks u very, very much Israel....I have finally installed all my pending devices
by this just one gr8 tip....I was planning to roll back to XP from RC2 was so frustrated...
Thanks Again Mate..
aero
On Monday, January 15, 2007 at 10:00 pm, Israel wrote:
>hi Vince
>Greg got the solution
>follow the instructions
>Here is the solution:
>
>1. Connect your drive
>2. When prompted that windows needs a driver click "locate and install driver software"
>3. Once you are prompted for the disc click "I dont have the disc. Show me other
>options."
>4. Now click on "Browse my computer for driver software"
>5. In the box type in the location of your system32 directory.. (in mine and most
>cases it will be "C:\Windows\System32" ) MAKE SURE the Include subfolders box is
>ticked and click next.
>6. Windows will find the driver and install it..
>7. Windows may ask you for the disc a few more times, just follow steps 3 to 5 again
>and the drivers will install perfectly.
>
>This is probably just one of the may bug in vista.. I am happy I found a solution
>for it though and I'm sure you will be too.
>enjoy!!
>
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Re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:23 am
Posted by George
(3 messages posted)
Gentlemen,
I have encountered the same problem with Vista looking for a USB to IDE driver. However;
when I tried your solution, I get the following message:
Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device.
Windows found driver sftware for your device but encountered an error while attempting
to install it.
USB mass storage device
The system cannot find the specified file.
If you know the manufacturer of your device, you can visit its website and check
the support section for driver software.
I was able to do this for one of my external drives, but there are no specific drivers
for the other external drive or for the flash drives that I am also having the problem
with. Some of my flash drives picked up with no problems whatsoever, while the others
keep coming up with the same error above when I tell it to search in the system32
folder. I do have the check subfolders box checked.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
George
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re: Re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Friday, June 8, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Posted by IEEE1394
(2 messages posted)
Hi,
I experience the same problem, finally i discover the file "usbstor.inf" and "usbstor.PNF"
(c:\windows\inf) disappear by unknown reason after i copy this 2 files back and search
the driver "c:\windows\system32" again everything is work! Hope it help you.
Thanks!
IEEE1394
On Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 7:23 am, George wrote:
>Gentlemen,
>I have encountered the same problem with Vista looking for a USB to IDE driver.
However;
>when I tried your solution, I get the following message:
>Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device.
>
>Windows found driver sftware for your device but encountered an error while attempting
>to install it.
>
>USB mass storage device
>
>The system cannot find the specified file.
>
>If you know the manufacturer of your device, you can visit its website and check
>the support section for driver software.
>
>I was able to do this for one of my external drives, but there are no specific drivers
>for the other external drive or for the flash drives that I am also having the problem
>with. Some of my flash drives picked up with no problems whatsoever, while the others
>keep coming up with the same error above when I tell it to search in the system32
>folder. I do have the check subfolders box checked.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>George
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re: Re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 7:26 am
Posted by George
(3 messages posted)
IEEE1394,
Thank you very much; I was missing the inf file. I replaced it and everything is
being recognized without a problem.
Thanks again,
George
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re: Re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 3:49 am
Posted by free craps
(1 messages posted)
Hi,
I have the same issue using a safecom caddy - however I dont have the .inf file.
I've searched the entire machine and it's just not there. I'm using Vista 64 Ultimate
if that's any help.
Can someone post a link where I could download the required files?
Thanks in advance.
Freudy
On Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 7:26 am, George wrote:
>IEEE1394,
>Thank you very much; I was missing the inf file. I replaced it and everything is
>being recognized without a problem.
>Thanks again,
>George
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re: Re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 4:18 am
Posted by George
(3 messages posted)
I found it at infdump.com; here is the link to the file itself.
http://www.infdump.com/download-inf-files_new.php/inffiles/U/USBSTOR.INF/5.1.2600.0/download.html
Hope this helps.
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re: Re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 8:57 am
Posted by Jason
(1 messages posted)
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! You saved me George!!!!! This was driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!
I downloaded the usbstor.inf and installed it into the windows inf folder. Then
I went into device manager and had it look and install the driver from the windows
inf folder....and voila!!!!!
You're the best George!!!
On Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 4:18 am, George wrote:
>I found it at infdump.com; here is the link to the file itself.
>http://www.infdump.com/download-inf-files_new.php/inffiles/U/USBSTOR.INF/5.1.2600.0/download.html
>Hope this helps.
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD Windows Vista
Monday, October 29, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Posted by RiptideHD
(3 messages posted)
I believe I can help you. I have been having this problem for quite some time.
Vista was working fine in the beginning and then it stopped recognizing and installing
the new USB hardware. I still don't know why this happened or how to fix it, but
here is the work around. It worked for me, it should work for you.
For some reason or another, windows vista isn't searching in the right place for
it's own drivers. There is a limit to the depth of the tree search as well, that's
why searching the entire c:\ drive does not work.
Once windows fails to find the correct driver, click on the line for more options.
One option is to search the internet which still finds nothing since the correct
drivers come with Windows Vista. The one you want to pick is marked Advanced and
allows you to point to the folder where the drivers reside.
Click it and point to this folder for every USB device and missing driver you have.
I literally did this 15 times to load all of the hardware that wouldn't load prior
to this fix. Now everything works great... EVERYTHING.
So, here is the place to point.
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\
Check the box which says to check the subdirectories and click search, or enter,
or go, or whatever the select box says.
That should do the trick, all of the windows drivers are in there. You will probably
have to do this quite a few times to catch up to all of the hardware you've been
trying to install.
My follow up question is, how to I remind Vista to search there on it's own rather
than me having to show it every time I attach a new device?
RiptideHD
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD Windows Vista
Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 12:26 am
Posted by IEEE1394
(2 messages posted)
Try go regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
in "DevicePath" add something like this: "%SystemRoot%\inf;%SystemRoot%\System32"
The new device search will get help
Hope can help you
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re: USB to IDE driver for External HDD
Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Posted by Joe W
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problem with vista. You need to look or point to the system32 folder
to find the driver.
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