Comments on: Workaround for USB devices not getting detected in Vista after Windows update

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:46:55 +0000

This unfortunately did not work for me. However, by going into control panel -> Programs and Features -> View Installed features. And removing the latest Service pack. I am no longer having problems. I also hid the SP2 update the next time it came up to prevent the problem from happening again.

By: Edwina

Edwina — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:31:57 +0000

I try it and it works nearly 100%. Most of the usb device can be detected excpet for my celcom usb modem . I wonder why?

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By: sibeng

sibeng — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:21:05 +0000

Amazing tips, thank you
It solved all the problems with all the USB devices

By: Van

Van — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:45:48 +0000

I’m having the same trouble on vista since a week though my pen drive or infrared dongle is being detected, my printers arent.. i’ve got a lexmark x3650 and an epson stylus 785.. It says windows cannot recognise usb device.. but i tried to connect the printers to an old pc on which i’ve xp… and it did work smoothly.. but its a pain to go through that old pc since it’ damn low on memory. Any suggestions?

By: blacknoise

blacknoise — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:13:13 +0000

so far it seems you have a different problem I think the wizard should be able to help you with this issue. but in the mean time you can try the below solutions.(2nd link i do not think you will need but i put it just for reference)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941600

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=51F0EF25-280B-4613-A600-C61224BACD1C&displaylang=en

also you could try plugging in the usb, right-click my computer icon, select “manage” and under that go to Storage>Diskmanagement. If your usb drive is listed simply right click it select “Change drive letter and paths” and assign another drive letter.

as alternate solutions(you will probably not like these ) you can always try a system restore. or backup your current data and do a clean install. So far thats the help I can give but i shall see if there a solution and let you know if there is.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:58:11 +0000

Thank you, Blacnoise – what a neat little gem you had in that regfile!

Unfortunately I couldn’t solve my problem even by following all your steps.

Maybe you are right, it can be a different problem, here what it’s like: All kinds of USB-storag – keys, cardreader, extern harddisk and camera won’t show up in Vista. That is: I can see them in device manager (where everythings looks OK) and in the command prompt, but not in windows explorer, and not in the applications.

My USB-keyboard, mouse and printer works OK. Also the devices work on other Vista-machines and worked previously on mine.

I can see, that a lot of people are posting about the same problem – some have been helped by some kind of moving around with the usbstor-files.

Of course, I’ll be very grateful if somebody can help. I’ve used a lot of hours on this and is close to desperation!

By: blacknoise

blacknoise — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:37:17 +0000

@Jesper

I think your problem is because you couldn’t copy the files into winsxs. If you are having problems taking ownership use the below reg file which will give you an option of taking ownership in your right click context menu. try to copy those files and follow the given steps.

http://dotnetwizard.net/dsplus/download.php?p=Add_Take_Ownership.rar

also usually this post mainly applies to USB devices that do not get detected because of drivers not getting installed properly. So please check if your usb-key does work by plugging it into a different pc.

If you still have problems do post a comment and the Wizard will help you.(he is a bit busy until the 6th )

By: Jesper

Jesper — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:49:50 +0000

Didn’t work for me. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.

When I plug in my USB-key, Vista installs a device driver succesfully, and there is no question mark in devicemanager. When I try to update the driver from devicemanager (pointing to winsxs), Vista will just tell me that I already have the best driver.

I wasn’t able to copy the files to winsxs because of permission-problems. I couldn’t use the usual method of making my group the owner of the folder.

I would be very happy, if you could help me further, because I can’t see any of my USB-storages in Vista (except in devicemanager).

Thank you,

Jesper