My first Vista driver bug (which I fixed)

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Don said:
I've been hanging out here for a few weeks, giving advice about a bug that
I couldn't actually reproduce until today. I'm happy to report that I've
been
giving the correct advice all along :o)

I used the Vista Disk Manager to shrink a Vista partition (which happened
to be completely empty -- not the C: drive) and I immediately got a popup
saying 'new hardware found' and after a long search got the dreaded and
familiar 'driver not found' error.

Well, this was clearly nonsense -- there was no 'new' hardware, it was
just
the Generic Volume driver which was needed (Lord only knows why it needs
to be re-installed just for resizing a partition).

Following my own advice, I deleted C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 and the
'driver not found' error vanished. I can now resize the partition as much
as I want without the 'found new hardware' dialog popping up.

I'm wondering what actually triggers the generation of a new INFCACHE.1
file. Anyone know?
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Don check the date, time zone on your system. You're posting from the
future.
 
I've been hanging out here for a few weeks, giving advice about a bug that
I couldn't actually reproduce until today. I'm happy to report that I've
been
giving the correct advice all along :o)

I used the Vista Disk Manager to shrink a Vista partition (which happened
to be completely empty -- not the C: drive) and I immediately got a popup
saying 'new hardware found' and after a long search got the dreaded and
familiar 'driver not found' error.

Well, this was clearly nonsense -- there was no 'new' hardware, it was just
the Generic Volume driver which was needed (Lord only knows why it needs
to be re-installed just for resizing a partition).

Following my own advice, I deleted C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 and the
'driver not found' error vanished. I can now resize the partition as much
as I want without the 'found new hardware' dialog popping up.

I'm wondering what actually triggers the generation of a new INFCACHE.1
file. Anyone know?
 
Don check the date, time zone on your system. You're posting from the
future.
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That's where I spend most of my time ;o) It's because I multiboot my
Vista machine between MS and non-MS systems, and the non-MS systems use
UTC and set the clock on every reboot. Is there a way to make Vista do
the same? I couldn't figure out how to make XP do it.
 
Don said:
That's where I spend most of my time ;o) It's because I multiboot my
Vista machine between MS and non-MS systems, and the non-MS systems use
UTC and set the clock on every reboot. Is there a way to make Vista do
the same? I couldn't figure out how to make XP do it.
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I don't know Don. Never looked into that.
 
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Rock said:
That's where I spend most of my time ;o) It's because I multiboot my
Vista machine between MS and non-MS systems, and the non-MS systems use
UTC and set the clock on every reboot. Is there a way to make Vista do
the same? I couldn't figure out how to make XP do it.
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I don't know Don. Never looked into that.
 
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