Inspiron 9300 Ultimate Upgrade Hardware Problems

Question

Running Vista Ultimate as an upgrade on XP Media Center 05.  My system is a Dell Inspiron 9300.  It has 2gb RAM. I am having device driver issues.  Prior to upgrading my XP laptop, I picked up a spare HDD, and did a full clean install of Vista to ensure that my critical apps and drivers would continue to work on this system.  After 4 weeks of testing it out, I went for the upgrade of the original HDD in the system.  And this is where my trouble begins. I cannot connect any external USB hard drives.  I cannot connect either of my digital cameras via USB.  The built-in SD-Card reader does not work.  According to Device Manager, the drivers were there. And the Bluetooth will not complete installation (this is the internal card I bought through Dell Parts; it did not originally come with my machine and was not part of my XP system) I swapped back to the spare drive, and confirmed that everything was in working order there.  I went bak to my primary system, and uninstalled the trouble devices in Device Manager.  I removed all the USB controllers and root hubs,and the SD Card reader.  I expected that when Vista restarted, it would redetect the hardware, reinstall the drivers, and all would be A-OK. Alas, this is not to be.  Now Vista cannot find drivers for devices that it had previously installed.    It cannot install the USB controllers, it cannot install the SD Card reader.  Vista keeps checking Windows Update, but doesn't find the solution there either.  I have put the Vista install CD in the drive, and there is still no joy.

eugene89us · Answer

If you have such problems, simply reinstall Windows Vista. I hope when you installed it on main HDD, you did a clean install of Vista, rather than in-place upgrade? If it is upgrade, then no surprise that you have errors - all in-place Vista upgrades give more trouble than backing up data and clean installing OS. You have second HDD - use it for backup and clean re-install your Windows. Let me know how it goes, b/c as your HDD2 runs Vista well, then it is nothing but a bad installation of Vista on HDD1. Good luck

Eugene

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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Dell Inspiron E1705
Intel Core Duo T2250 @ 1.75 GHz
2 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 256 MB Graphics Card with Hypermemory
120 GB 5400 RPM Hard Disk Drive
Kensington USB 2.0 Bluetooth
Dell Wireless 1390 Card
Sigmatel High Definition Audio
Sony DVD+-RW with DL Support

Rebel9 · Answer

Well I can sympathize with you, but that's about all. As you have discovered first hand, almost all of the horror stories posted in this forum have eminated from 'upgrade' installs. In theory (if all of the proper procedures were followed) an upgrade should work , but ...............................   You say that everything is running properly on the second (spare) drive. Why don't you simply use this then instead of the 'upgrade' drive. I'm sure you must have a reason, but I don't see anything in your post.

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