Hi,

Anyone any experience of getting Vista to recognise a Buffalo DriveStation
Combo?
Vista won't recognise mine whether I connect it via the USB or the FireWire
cable. The drive is supposed to be Plug-and-Play under Vista - no such
luck!!! I haven't had any problems with any other devices ... plug-and-play
has always worked before. I'm about ready to give up and return the drive to
the retailer - spent the last two days trying to find a solution and not sure
I have much hair left to pull out.

All help appreciated

Thx
Tom

did it come with driver disk.
if not ask the manufacturer about vista drivers.



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"TomnJo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:EDEF36F9-12AF-4819-8C7C-(E-Mail Removed)...
Hi,

Anyone any experience of getting Vista to recognise a Buffalo DriveStation
Combo?
Vista won't recognise mine whether I connect it via the USB or the FireWire
cable. The drive is supposed to be Plug-and-Play under Vista - no such
luck!!! I haven't had any problems with any other devices ... plug-and-play
has always worked before. I'm about ready to give up and return the drive to
the retailer - spent the last two days trying to find a solution and not sure
I have much hair left to pull out.

All help appreciated

Thx
Tom

Buffalo does list a June 2007 firmware update that supports Vista.

"TomnJo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Anyone any experience of getting Vista to recognise a Buffalo DriveStation
> Combo?
> Vista won't recognise mine whether I connect it via the USB or the
> FireWire
> cable. The drive is supposed to be Plug-and-Play under Vista - no such
> luck!!! I haven't had any problems with any other devices ...
> plug-and-play
> has always worked before. I'm about ready to give up and return the drive
> to
> the retailer - spent the last two days trying to find a solution and not
> sure
> I have much hair left to pull out.
>
> All help appreciated
>
> Thx
> Tom

Is your drive station USB 2.0 compliant?

Does it use special drivers because they have made some modifications that
they wish to implement.

Some/most external drives use the system USB drivers. One or two don't. I
sold one that didn't (can't remember the brand) because I didn't want the
hassle.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"JohnFitz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I have a Sony laptop running Vista. I bought a Buffalo DriveStation
> Combo recently and got it working with the supplied Memeo AutoBackup.
> It seemed to be running fairly slowly and had a problem transferring an
> iso file and reported that the backup was complete even though there
> were quite a number of folders not copied. I upgraded to v3.5 and
> eventually with a bit of fiddling I was reasonably happy with it.
> Then the Drive Station stopped connecting. The system would check for
> the drive about once a minute - find it - then it would drop it. I did
> spot a Windows message saying "Could not load driver software". I
> checked and the USB drivers were up-to-date. I switched off TurboUSB
> but that made no difference.
> After a couple of days it is now working again - I don't know why....
> Occasionally a system message will pop up saying that I am using USB
> 1.1 with the DriveStation and that it would run faster if I connected it
> to USB 2.0. Well of course, but my 3 USB ports ARE 2.0 so I wonder does
> the DriveStation itself inhibit the USB speed.
> Overall I am nervous about my backup system when really I need to be
> super confident with it.
> If anyone has any similar experiences I would be grateful to hear from
> them.
> Many thanks
> John
>
>
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