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Update to Windows 10 nightmare
Boggin:
Perhaps you should consider resetting Win 10 - it has an option where it will just reinstall Win 10 and leave your personal stuff and then you can go to your computer support site and download all drivers.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/windows-10-recovery-options
Phototaker:
I between holiday commitments I have been trying what was suggested using the Windows 10 reset option. This option is said to save all of my files while winding back all of by drivers & any changes since the original update was applied. You have to reinstall of your software with this option.
Things are a little better but nowhere near I think they should be. If I discount the possibility that my hardware is faulty then my prime suspect with the USB area I can insert a stick & I might get asked what would I like to happen when say "E" gets plugged in & I say ask me every time. I plug a second one in & I get asked again what I want to do with say "R" & I give it the same answer. Now the strange thing is If I plug in "E" again, I get asked the same question even though it should open automatically. It hasn't saved my choice.
If I plug say a passport drive it sometimes says that the drive has errors & this I should let it scan & fix the errors. But when the scan is finished it reports that there are no errors.
I think that perhaps Windows is getting really confused with the drive letters that I have assigned. I'll keep trying.
Boggin:
Perhaps you should let Windows assign the drive letters.
Since I removed and merged the Recovery partition on this laptop, my DVD player has become D: from E: - while my external HDDs remain at F: and a USB stick now comes in at G:
Plugging them into a different USB port if you have any spare, may get Windows to reassign them.
This laptop only has two and one of those is permanently taken up with a wireless mouse receiver.
My Epson printer has a card reader and Windows has always assigned that as Z:
I'd posted this link in another post which may help you reset things so that the INFCACHE.1 file is rebuilt.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/165554-usb-driver-general-fix-problems.html
It's for Win 7 so I don't know how you would feel about reverting to Win 7 with your system image to carry out this repair as I don't know if the steps would be the same in Win 10 - I haven't Googled yet to see if there's an equivalent for Win 10.
Phototaker:
I have seen the suggestion that perhaps I should let Windows assign drive letters & the link to a 4 year old site on how to check & remove drive letters already assigned. I think that some of this procedure may have altered since the instructions.
I have however gone to device manager & found that under SAMSUNG Mobile USB Composite Device followed by 2 mentions failed request. Under that again are 13 entries for 'USB Mass Storage Device'. To the left of the screen is a column which appears to be an icon for a lock & all of these appear as be grayed out.. Is this problem? Should I just delete these grayed out items & see if Windows can actually fix something?
I have tried to attach a snip of the file but its not being attached.
jraju:
Hi, Phototaker,
as per the advice of boggins, i also uninstalled all the faded drivers in the usb ports. You could click to see the properties, that there shows a wrong code in the general tab.
Just select one by one and uninstall all the faded drivers. It is not of any use remaining there. It will create duplicate driver problem for the actual hardware device to get the correct driver.
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