Windows 10: USB hard drive is not recognizing on Windows 10 Discus and support USB hard drive is not recognizing on Windows 10 in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Hello, I have an old USB hard drive that is not recognized after using Windows 10. It says Unknown USB Device (Invalid Configuration Descriptor). Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started.
I have a brand new LaCie (Maxtor) 80GB USB external hard drive with an Adaptec USB 2.0 adapter card. My computer setup is a Pentium II Dell Dimension 400, 256MB RAM, 14GB internal drive.
Windows 98SE sees the external backup drive and its two partitions (and has assigned them letters) and I can copy non-running programs and data fine from the main drive to the USB drive. However, I can't copy a complete drive image (with Windows system files) from DOS (version 4.X) because DOS doesn't detect the USB drive. Are there drivers available to enable DOS to 'see' USB connections? Do I need to reinstall everything and FDisk the USB drive?
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More on my problems getting DOS to detect my USB drive: Info from Drive Image (which I have and which, so far, does not see my USB device):'Drive Image and DOS Tips:'Depending on how you start DOS, there are three scenarios for loading drivers:'A. If you run Drive Image by booting into Windows 95, selecting the icon for Drive Image, and allowing it to boot to DOS, then you need to modify the DOSSTART.BAT to include the drivers. The DOSSTART.BAT is located in the Windows subdirectory and is used by Windows instead of your AUTOEXEC.BAT when you Shut Down and Restart the computer in DOS Mode.
If you plan to run Drive Image this way, you need to also install the DOS drivers and then copy into the DOSSTART.BAT the lines the installation adds to the AUTOEXEC.BAT.' If you plan on running Drive Image after booting straight into DOS mode by pressing F8 during bootup and then choosing to boot to the Command Prompt Only, the drivers need to be loaded into the AUTOEXEC.BAT.
During this boot procedure, those are the files used to boot instead of the DOSSTART.BAT.' If you plan on running Drive Image after booting from floppy disk, then you will need to create a bootable floppy that contains an AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS that load the drivers. You may need to do this on a different floppy than the bootable floppy that Drive Image creates, since there is very little space available on it.
You can then boot the floppy that loads the drivers and switch to the floppy that contains Drive Image.' I don't know whether any of the above is pertinent to me, since my Windows 98SE recognizes my USB hard drive.
It is DOS that does not.However, from everything I read, it seems that my BIOS is missing instructions to load the USB drivers at the proper point when DOS could use them. So, maybe if I add or change some lines in the BIOS, then Drive Image in its DOS mode might be able to detect my USB hard drive.My problem is that I do not know my way around the BIOS, at least with respect to such things as adding controller values, toggling Legacy support, and so forth.All I've accomplished so far is to get pretty confused.