Vista doesn't recognize Travel Drive

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I have a Memorex U3 Travel Drive. Vista sees the drive in My Computer [both
the install files and the data folder (not the contents)]. However I cannot
access the drive. Took it out and tried it in old XP machine---fine. I
contacted Memorex and they said they didn't have updated drivers and my never
have them for this device. Any ideas?????

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I have a Memorex U3 Travel Drive. Vista sees the drive in My Computer
[both
the install files and the data folder (not the contents)]. However I
cannot
access the drive. Took it out and tried it in old XP machine---fine. I
contacted Memorex and they said they didn't have updated drivers and my
never
have them for this device. Any ideas?????
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I'm seriously scared that MS does not care about our Storage Devices in
Windows Vista. I won fight with my new 4GB Pendrive which don't want to work
with Vista (any other system including any Linux has no problem to recognize
it!). I've just installed driver from XP. Try to reinstall driver with this
procedure.
Just place in some location usbsor.inf from INF directory from Windows XP
and usbstor.sys from Windows\System32\drivers from XP. In the same directory
place volume.inf and volume.sys from Windows Vista. And then try to install
drivers once again pointing to folder where you placed this files.
 
Thanks for the info...but that didn't make the slightest sense to me...sorry...

Rafal Kubiak said:
I have a Memorex U3 Travel Drive. Vista sees the drive in My Computer
[both
the install files and the data folder (not the contents)]. However I
cannot
access the drive. Took it out and tried it in old XP machine---fine. I
contacted Memorex and they said they didn't have updated drivers and my
never
have them for this device. Any ideas?????
Click to expand...

I'm seriously scared that MS does not care about our Storage Devices in
Windows Vista. I won fight with my new 4GB Pendrive which don't want to work
with Vista (any other system including any Linux has no problem to recognize
it!). I've just installed driver from XP. Try to reinstall driver with this
procedure.
Just place in some location usbsor.inf from INF directory from Windows XP
and usbstor.sys from Windows\System32\drivers from XP. In the same directory
place volume.inf and volume.sys from Windows Vista. And then try to install
drivers once again pointing to folder where you placed this files.
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I am using a Memorex travel drive also, one gig and it works fine. I don't
know if it the U3 version, it was cheap.
 
Hi There,

I was able to reformat only a portion of the drive. I have copied all my
files to my PC and reformatted drive "TRAVELDRIVE G", but because the "U3
system files" is "read only" I can't format them. Do you know the way around
that?

Thanks,

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Devasx said:
U3 versions below 1.4 do not work with Vista. If you only want the memory
from the drive you can put it into a XP machine, copy your data off of it,
format it (removing the U3 software) and copy your data back. Then, in Vista
it should look like any other removable drive.

http://u3user.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/u3user.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=193

JamesL said:
I have a Memorex U3 Travel Drive. Vista sees the drive in My Computer
[both
the install files and the data folder (not the contents)]. However I
cannot
access the drive. Took it out and tried it in old XP machine---fine. I
contacted Memorex and they said they didn't have updated drivers and my
never
have them for this device. Any ideas?????

(e-mail address removed)
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