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USB Mass Storage Driver

Zone: Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: storage, mass, usb, driver

I have purchased a USB Mass Storage device which utalizes a standard 2.5" laptop hard drive. The hard drive is full functional and works fine when I plug it into a motherboard directly. The USB adaptor case I purchased came with drivers for Win 98 or older. It says in the literature that it does not need a driver for later versions of Windows. When I first got the case, it hooked up with no problem. The drive was found and showed up as a mass storage device. This worked for a couple of days. Since then, when I plug it in, the auto detect, on any machine I use, sats it has found an unidentified USB device. It no longer is recognized as a mass storage device. What could be the problem and can I use a generic driver when installing the device?

The drive enclosure I purchased can be seen at:

http://www.cooldrives.com/poc25porusba.html

Any help would be appriciated.

James

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Zone: Storage

Question Asked By: jcalaway

Solution Provided By: kannabis

Participating Experts: 5

Solution Grade: A

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