Try this site.
[url]http://www.infdump.com/download-inf-files_new.php/inffiles/U/USBSTOR.INF/5.1.2600.0/download.html[/url]

"Marein" <Marein@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B8A9D3E-DA37-4DD7-BE43-CCFAFB9E63BD@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> For pretty much every USB-based storage device that I plug in to my laptop
> (USB sticks, external drives...), Vista is unable to find a driver. It
> first
> pops up a couple of times telling me that it can't find it and that I can
> choose for it to try and find a solution, and in the end it points me to
> this
> update:
>
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=51F0EF25-280B-4613-A600-C61224BACD1C&displaylang=en[/url]
>
> I download it, but then it tells me that "The update does not apply to my
> system."
>
> So now I'm stuck without any way to use USB sticks or external hard
> drives.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.[/color]