Friday September 14, 2007 USB-SATA Bridge problem
Just bought a new Buffalo MiniStation 250 GB USB drive. It worked like a charm on my laptop, but on my desktop machine I could not get it to show up. Instead, the add hardware wizard kept popping up asking to install "BUFFALO INC. USB-SATA Bridge". I tried all the usual suspects, windows update, searching the install CD, searching www.buffalotech.com for any kernels of knowledgebase, etc. But no help for the specific problem.
I finally found something mentioning usbstore.inf and usbstore.pnf as the files where all the USB storage stuff is kept (found in C:/Windows/INF). I looked in my Windows/INF folder and guess what, the files were missing on my desktop, but present on my laptop. Not sure how or when that happened, but it seemed to be the cause of the problem. I was running Windows XP Pro on both machines, so I just copied the files over from my laptop and put them in Windows/INF, and viola, my buffalo mounted next time I plugged it in.
Posted by rickg ( Sep 14 2007, 10:08:03 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]