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Always prompted with "found new hardware" to install driver software for any USB device

Discussion in 'Device Drivers' started by kimjaezie, Aug 25, 2012.

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  1. Cobalt006 TechSpot Booster Posts: 821   +43

    Your Welcome , But Lookin Around gets the credit.
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  2. LookinAround TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 7,677   +39

    WooHoo! Great news kimjaezie. We're all glad to help :)

    @jobeard
    Occured to me this morning I may have given you a long, roundabout answer :eek: to what may have been a simpler question.
    If you were asking about trying to extract the USB Mass Storage (UMS) driver files from driver store, I don't think OP's driver store contained a valid driver package for the needed UMS driver. If it did, Windows should have found and installed it as Windows searches driver store first looking for the UMS driver.
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  3. sidni_11 Newcomer, in training

    I have the same problem as this one. LookinAround what would I need to do? :'(
  4. LookinAround TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 7,677   +39

    sidni_11 Need more info. Provide answers to all of these questions:
    1) what make/model computer and what version of windows are you running on the computer having the problem?

    2) Have you tried the same flashdrives on other computers? Does the problem only occur on one but not others?

    3) Plug in the flash drive and wait for the Found New Hardware popup to occur. Then list any Problem devices
    • Click Start->Run, enter: msinfo32. Click the + sign next to Components to expand it
    • Click Problem Devices. Anything appear?
    • If yes, click on it, Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy it, Ctrl-V to paste into next post
    • On the other hand, if no devices are listed, tell me so
  5. starlitephi Newcomer, in training

    Drivers that are installed during the "Installing Devices" portion of GUI-mode Setup have to be found in certain locations. At this point, Setup installs the devices (by using Plug and Play IDs) that have been enumerated by Windows Plug and Play. Setup searches a predefined path on the drive, looking in .inf files to find the best match for the Plug and Play ID of the device. This path is defined in the following registry location and is set to %SystemRoot%\Inf by default:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DevicePath: REG_EXPAND_SZ:%SystemRoot%\Inf

    Setup uses this path to locate .inf files for device installation. After Setup, this path is also used for any new hardware found and installed. If you modify this key during Setup by using the Sysprep.inf or Unattended answer file, the value is saved and is also used after Setup.