No surprises here.
I kept running into the error that “No Installation Drivers Could be Found” on my Windows Vista Premium computer. iTunes was open. Well, I solved the issue. 4 times I had to search the C Drive manually though the USB Driver Installation prompts. Luckily it worked. All is well now. All is well.. I’m excited for 160 GB of music, videos, photos and “other”.
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Hi
Care to share with the rest of how to get it working then?
Mark
Mark, the post is on how I solved the issue… I had to manually search my computer everytime the prompt came up… If the Vista prompts come up for New Hardware Installation, Choose manually search the computer each time it comes up(make sure you have the newest iTunes installed)….
Mark,
I have had this problem numerous times with quite a few usb products. All I did was to make a bookmark of my windows/system32 folder on my desk top. I select it when I browse for the driver. You will go through three installation prompts of drivers and vista will not bug you again.
Thanks Gerry, that definitely could come in handy…
Ok, I’m totally not computer savvy. Can someone walk me through this process? If this is even the same problem I’m having. I installed Itunes. I plugged up my ipod. Can’t find drivers anywhere to install. Don’t have the disc that cme with the ipod.
i’m having a similar problem with my new iPod classic i was just wondering how i would make a bookmark of the system 32 folder which gerry said to do?
i just got a new ipod and i installed itunes, but my usb doesn’t even recognize that anythings plugged in. i can’t find windows/system 32 on my windows vista.
I am having the same problem. I called Apple and HP (my computer company) several times and HP was able to help more. Basically Apple is worthless. I will let you know if I can get this to work and give you instructions because I know how annoying it is. For now the first step is to UNPLUG YOUR IPOD!!!! and go to your start menu –> control panel –> classic view –> programs and features
here you will uninstall ALL quicktime and apple related programs. for the apple part, towards the top you should see a bar that says name .. and publisher etc.. click publisher and under publisher look for apple. after unistalling it all go to apple.com and reinstall itunes (quicktime should be installed as well). now plug in your ipod and click manually search and follow the advice of the original posts. hope this helps.
I’m having the same problems. Have installed and uninstalled itunes and Quick Time several times now. After plugging the ipod in i get two messages: Ipod driver - ready to use” and then… “Searching for windows update - Unidentified device - Failed” At that point I have the option to manually direct Vista to the System 32 folder (and sub directories). I then received the following message - “Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. Generic Volume. The system cannot find the file specified.” After that I can’t get any further and any subsequent unplugging and plugging in of the ipod is not recognised at all by the computer. Help…! Any more suggestions??
Hey man thanks a lot for that post you saved my life. I was desperate for such a long time i cant ever repay you for that post man. Hey people this thing realy works.
here’s what you can do to resolve that issue AND FOR ALL OTHER USB DEVICES THAT WON’T BE DETECTED: (vista)
(make sure the device in unplugged first)
1. make sure all hidden files can be viewed
2. go to Windows folder and find the ‘infcache’ file.
3. right click then choose properties
4. in securities tab, make sure the access is in full control.
5. delete the infcache file
6. plug the device back
Same problem as Carl. Any solutions yet??
I had an interesting situation, trying to install one of the new classics for my dad. we are both running windows vista, and when i plugged it into his, we had the problem that some of you had, but when i plugged it into my pc, it auto installed it, and everything went smooth as a baby’s butt.
maybe it has something to with the version of vista being used, i’m using premium, and my dad is using ultimate…
just another perspective
same problem as you all had, matts thingy workes a charm, just do wat he said in his post and u shuld get ur ipod up n running in no time,
thanks, shabs
Hi there. I think I solved a similar problem a moment ago.
Plug in your ipod and go into device manager in Vista, look for Universal service bus controllers (or something like that, I have Polish version of Vista) and find an unknown device. Update your driver, but you should manually choose what device you just connected. You have to find that window where you choose a manufacturer and choose Apple and nextly iPod USB driver. That will install drivers for iPod, but it will be still in the device manager with that yellow exclamation mark. Nextly you should disconnect iPod and reboot your computer. After reboot you connect your iPod and Vista should install all the drivers and it should work from this moment on.
Sorry for my english. Haven’t written anything for a long time.
I’ve been having this problem for a month and I just found a solution. I looked for drivers in c:\windows\winsxs and it worked!
I had the same problem, Then tried Samantha,s Worked perfect straight away.
Cheeres
thank you so much for your post it worked straight away!!!!!!!!!!
Big thanks Samantha, it worked just fine for me. BTW, you forgot to mention that thius driver isn’t signed.
Samantha-I LOVE YOU! Thank you for the fix!
That worked prefectly. Thanks so much Samantha!!! Have been trying different files but with no luck. Worked first time.
i tried so many ways, but ur way worked so quickly thanks samantha
This actually worked, couldn’t believe it at first. I’ve tried soooo many things before this. Thanks a lot!
Exactly, what was the name of the driver file you found in winsxs?
thanks a lot. I was planning on downgrading to XP before school started again, this problem made me want to do it immediately. maybe now I can wait until later. much thanks samantha. by the way, the sum of 5 and 6 is not 11. it’s 1011… stupid wordpress
winsxs worked for me too! Thanks a lot Samantha!
Samantha….thanks!!!
Samantha a big thanks! It’s finally working