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December 2007 Entries

SanDisk Cruzer U3 Drive Trouble

My wife gave me a 4GB SanDisk Cruzer U3 drive for Christmas.  I ran into trouble with it on my Vista desktop at the office where I kept getting an error where Vista recognized the device, but it couldn't find the specified files when it attempted to install the drivers.  I finally found a solution after lots of searching the web.  In an effort to get the info out (not that anyone ever reads this lame blog, but I do seem to get lots of search hits) I found that the suggestion by "ABACTech" dated 10/26/2007 11:25 a.m. on this forum posting posting solved the problem.

I'll just clarify one point on which files to copy - I figured it out, but thought it could be clearer on what to copy.  Just open the folder named "usbstor.inf_xxxxxx".  I had two folders with the same name but different "_xxxxxx" extensions.  Open both and find the two most recent files named usbstor.inf & usbstor.PNF (as mentioned in the original article) within those folders and move those to the "C:/Windows/inf" folder.

Thanks again to ABACTech for sharing your knowledge!  You made my day a little easier!