Card Reader Mapping

I have a card reader which I have used in the past without problems. The "drives" are not showing up in winexplorer/my computer, but appear in device manager and are listed as working. I had this happen a long time ago and had to remap them using disk manager, which worked fine.

The problem is, now when I try to change the drive letter via disk manager, I get this message: "The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If the problem persists close the Disk Management or restart the computer."

I have tried refreshing, I have tried rescanning, I have tried closing/reopening Disk Management, and I have tried rebooting the computer, all to no avail.

I am running Vista. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

Did you try to use System Restore to restore your system back prior to when this problem began?


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It's been a looooooong time since they showed up (I haven't used the card reader in a while, so didn't really worry about it). There is a lot of stuff I wouldn't want to revert back that far on my system. I can't believe there isn't a less drastic solution.

 

It's an ibuypower pc (custom built), but the order (from back in early 2007) doesn't specify the brand, it just says 12-in-1 card reader. Device manager says it's using Microsoft drivers (I'm using Vista). I check Windows update, but there are no new updates listed for the card reader.

 

If I uninstall from Device manager, will Windows recognize it as "new" hardware? There are like 6 readers listed in device manager under drives (all part of this 12-in-one).

 

I'm going to try to dig through my stuff at home and find the cds/documentation that came with the computer to see if the reader disc is there. Otherwise, thanks so much for the driver backup link. I will try that and let you know how it goes. May take a few days before I post back, since I work late hours.

 

Found the cd, but it's for XP, so I will have to try uninstalling/reinstalling in device manager. Will post results later.

 

Ugh, I backed up the drivers, uninstalled from device manager, got a message saying the drivers had been reinstalled, but the drives STILL don't show up in winexplorer and I STILL get that message from disk manager. Help! :cry