Windows Usb Mass Storage Device Driver
My Windows 7 Pro 64 bit Toshiba laptop has USB storage drivers with a date of 2006. I get an error 'USB device unrecognized' or something to that effect. Driver usb mass storage device driver Windows 8 downloads - Free Download Windows 8 driver usb mass storage device driver - Windows 8 Downloads - Free Windows8 Download. Windows 98 USB Mass Storage Device Drivers. USB flash drives and other USB mass storage based devices are becoming more and more common. Unfortunately, they often do.
How to Repair Corrupt USB Mass Storage or CD/DVD Drivers For some unknown reason, I've been seeing cases where USB Mass Storage or CD/DVD driver files go missing. This corrupts the respective driver. USB Mass Storage Driver - used for external USB storage devices like flash drives, hard disks, and USB CD/DVD drives.
CD/DVD Driver - used for CD/DVD players. If you have a USB CD/DVD note that Windows installs the USB Mass Storage driver first. Only after the Mass Storage driver is installed and working correctly, Windows installs the CD/DVD driver. If it's an internal CD/DVD drive Windows only installs the CD/DVD driver for it When driver files are missing, the driver is corrupt and can't be installed. Device Manager will have an entry with a yellow icon - indicating a device error. The device may be listed under 'Other Devices' or other places in Device Manager. Right click the device -Properties-General tab.
If error is because no driver could be found, you'll see device status code= 28 The following instructions apply to Windows Vista and higher. It will be easier to follow instructions if you can easily see Windows file extensions Click Control Panel-Folder Options-View Uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types'.
Click OK USB Mass Storage Driver These 3 files should exist (or the driver is corrupt). C: Windows inf usbstor.inf.
C: Windows inf usbstor.pnf. C: Windows system32 drivers usbstor.sys If one or more of these files are missing. Navigate to C: Windows System32 DriverStore FileRepository. Scroll down. Find the folder name that starts with usbstor.inf. You may see more then one folder with name starting usbstor.inf. IF YOU DO: you want the folder with the most recent date.
Usb Mass Storage Device
Open the folder. There's a copy of the 3 files you need.
Copy each one to its correct location as shown above. Jump to the instructions below to delete the INFCACHE.1 file CD/DVD Driver These 3 files should exist (or the driver is corrupt). C: Windows inf cdrom.inf. C: Windows inf cdrom.pnf.
C: Windows system32 drivers cdrom.sys If one or more of these files are missing. Navigate to C: Windows System32 DriverStore FileRepository. Scroll down. Find the folder name that starts with cdrom.inf. You may see more then one folder with name starting cdrom.inf. IF YOU DO: you want the folder with the most recent date.
Open the folder. There's a copy of the 3 files you need. Copy each one to its correct location as shown above. Jump to the instructions below to delete the INFCACHE.1 file Delete the INFCACHE.1 file.
(I recommend the easiest way to do this: use the Take Ownership.zip file they provide to update the registry for you). Navigate to C: Windows System32 DriverStore. Right click INFCACHE.1 Select 'Take Ownership' in the context menu. Delete INFCACHE.1. Reboot your computer Windows will rebuild the INFCACHE.1 file and (hopefully ) be able to find and install the device driver for you!