Even in my case problems extends to all hardware and I'm always forced to do
a manual search in the windows directory even for installing the generic
volume shadow copy sistem drivers (volume shadow copies appears in the device
manager if you choose view hidden devices).
However I was able to somehow solve the problem following the instructions
on another thread in this forum that I can't report because the search
function isn't working right now.
I will report what I have done hoping that it may solve the problem on your
system also.
- Browse to C:\Windows\inf and find the file INFCACHE.1
- You need to move or delete this file but you can't until you don't give
full control
to Administator user.
- To do what stated above right click on INFCACHE.1 the select Properties
and then
security.
- Now click edit then add and in the box that appear manually type
Administrators
if you want you can click the check names button to be sure you have
entered it
correctly.
- At least give Administrators full control over this file and finally move
INFCACHE.1
in a location of your choice.
- Reboot and to test everything went well go to device manager and try to
uninstall and then autodetect a device of your choice. The device should be
correctly auto-detected now.



"thepointer" wrote:

>
> Hi I've just experienced this same problem, except mine extends to ALL
> hardware. I think you probably have the same problem as me except you
> didnt realise that it was more widespread than just USB devices.
>
> I too have to select the "search for drivers in this directory" and put
> in the c:\windows\system32\driverstore directory to install ANY
> hardware. This includes my new harddrive, aswell as the 'storage volume'
> driver.
>
> Did you work out how to fix this?
>
>
> --
> thepointer
>