Lacie 250 GB USB HD asking for drivers in WinXP

[Guest]

First of all this drive works fine with my laptop - WinXP recognizes it,
assigns it a drive letter and there it is.

However, when I plug the drive into my desktop (Dell Dimension 8300) WinXP
recognizes the device then asks for a driver ("Found New Hardware" screen
comes up). It should not need a driver for winXP, and installing the Win98/ME
driver it is requesting from the CD does not help.

The drive shows up in the Device Manager as a "Lacie HD" USB device with a
yellow "!" - clicking on it brings up "This device is not configured
correctly - code 1" which means the driver is not installed - but there is
none necessary for WinXP of course. The drive is being associated with the
wrong driver for some reason. The USB works fine with thumb drives, printers,
etc.

Thanks for any help

Sheldon

 

[Doug]

First of all this drive works fine with my laptop - WinXP recognizes it,
assigns it a drive letter and there it is.

However, when I plug the drive into my desktop (Dell Dimension 8300) WinXP
recognizes the device then asks for a driver ("Found New Hardware" screen
comes up). It should not need a driver for winXP, > Thanks for any help

Sheldon

Have a gander at the "XP asks for drivers" section of
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

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[Guest]

I'd already checked out that page and did the registry edit/deleted
infcache.1 file and it didn't help unfortunately.

 

[Guest]

Ok, traded the Lacie USB in for a Lacie firewire and am having exactly the
same problem - it's asking for drivers. For some reason it is not using the
WinXP drivers. I have no idea what to try next.