I have a SanDisk 16gb cruzer that is easily recognized in my XP Pro
machines and was for a brief while on my 2 Vista Ultimate machines.
A few weeks ago, my 2 Vista Machines stop recognizing it. If I go to
device manager, I can see it listed as a disk drive. To get it to work
I scroll down to USB Mass Storage Device and disable/enable it and it
pops up and all is good. If I look in Computer Mgmt /Disk Mgmt, it
shows up as unallocated so it does not get assigned a driver letter.
If I boot the PC with the usb drive inserted it works fine. I called
Sandisk technial support and they said it was "Vista problem" because
the drive works in XP and in a friend's computer also running Vista.
Can one delete all USB devices in Vista without doing a complete
reload of Vista. Maybe setting all USB paramters back to that after a
clean install would help ?
Any help would be much appreciated. Steve