New Flash Drive says it needs a driver

I just purchased a SanDish 4GB Flash Drive. When I put it in the USB drive a
box comes up saying it needs a driver. I called SanDisk and they had me get
patch #KB937187. I got it from Microsoft but the flash drive still is not
recognized as a USB device. Can someone tell me what I can do to fix this?
thank you

"onemulligan" <onemulligan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97867FE9-61D7-427D-8458-58D48E7F916D@microsoft.com...
>I just purchased a SanDish 4GB Flash Drive. When I put it in the USB drive
>a
> box comes up saying it needs a driver. I called SanDisk and they had me
> get
> patch #KB937187. I got it from Microsoft but the flash drive still is not
> recognized as a USB device. Can someone tell me what I can do to fix
> this?
> thank you


Sometimes with Flash drives you can ignore the message. See if the drive
appears with a letter assigned, use it normally, disconnect it and the next
time it will be ok. Actually it operated with the native Vista or XP
driver. When I go to large meetings and everyone passes around their own
flash drive, this is what happens. Everyone's drive comes up with error
messages and then things settle down.

--
BobF.

I went to My Computer and the device is not there. It shows as an unknown
device.

"Bob F." wrote:

> "onemulligan" <onemulligan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97867FE9-61D7-427D-8458-58D48E7F916D@microsoft.com...
> >I just purchased a SanDish 4GB Flash Drive. When I put it in the USB drive
> >a
> > box comes up saying it needs a driver. I called SanDisk and they had me
> > get
> > patch #KB937187. I got it from Microsoft but the flash drive still is not
> > recognized as a USB device. Can someone tell me what I can do to fix
> > this?
> > thank you
>
>
> Sometimes with Flash drives you can ignore the message. See if the drive
> appears with a letter assigned, use it normally, disconnect it and the next
> time it will be ok. Actually it operated with the native Vista or XP
> driver. When I go to large meetings and everyone passes around their own
> flash drive, this is what happens. Everyone's drive comes up with error
> messages and then things settle down.
>
> --
> BobF.
>