Vista SP2 Stopped my Card Reader Working

I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit - after installing SP2 my 15 in 1 card
reader stopped working. Its drives do not appear in my computer. If I run
disk management it can see the slots but can't allocate them a letter. If I
look in hardware devices there is a list of storage volumes that can't start
(code 10). If I boot the computer with a card in the slot, the slot the card
is in shows up but none of the others do. If I uninstall SP2 all is well and
the slots appear again.

Any ideas?

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:58:13 +0100, "R. Giskard Reventlov" <no.spam@me>
wrote:

>I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit - after installing SP2 my 15 in 1 card
>reader stopped working. Its drives do not appear in my computer. If I run
>disk management it can see the slots but can't allocate them a letter. If I
>look in hardware devices there is a list of storage volumes that can't start
>(code 10). If I boot the computer with a card in the slot, the slot the card
>is in shows up but none of the others do. If I uninstall SP2 all is well and
>the slots appear again.
>
>Any ideas?

Did you install SP2 with the card reader plugged in ?

"Jim" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:58:13 +0100, "R. Giskard Reventlov" <no.spam@me>
> wrote:
>
>>I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit - after installing SP2 my 15 in 1 card
>>reader stopped working. Its drives do not appear in my computer. If I run
>>disk management it can see the slots but can't allocate them a letter. If
>>I
>>look in hardware devices there is a list of storage volumes that can't
>>start
>>(code 10). If I boot the computer with a card in the slot, the slot the
>>card
>>is in shows up but none of the others do. If I uninstall SP2 all is well
>>and
>>the slots appear again.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
> Did you install SP2 with the card reader plugged in ?

Yes - I had no choice as its one built into my computer rather than one
attached via a USB lead

R. Giskard Reventlov,

You may also want to check with Microsoft directly for additional
support. Microsoft does have an official Windows Vista Support Forum
located here http://tinyurl.com/d5r9v3. It is supported by product
specialists as well as engineers and support teams. If the advice you
receive here does not resolve the problem, you may want to check the
threads over at TechNet.

Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team


--
JessicaD

I had the same thing happen too me, with my HP PAVILION DV7 NOTEBOOK, went
to the HP website and updated my bios and it fixed the problem, I am running
Windows home premium
Steve
"JessicaD" <v-> wrote in message
news:...
>
> R. Giskard Reventlov,
>
> You may also want to check with Microsoft directly for additional
> support. Microsoft does have an official Windows Vista Support Forum
> located here http://tinyurl.com/d5r9v3. It is supported by product
> specialists as well as engineers and support teams. If the advice you
> receive here does not resolve the problem, you may want to check the
> threads over at TechNet.
>
> Jessica
> Microsoft Windows Client Team
>
>
> --
> JessicaD

"R. Giskard Reventlov" <no.spam@me> wrote in message
news:4a4b798c$0$18249$...
>I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit - after installing SP2 my 15 in 1 card
>reader stopped working. Its drives do not appear in my computer. If I run
>disk management it can see the slots but can't allocate them a letter. If I
>look in hardware devices there is a list of storage volumes that can't
>start (code 10). If I boot the computer with a card in the slot, the slot
>the card is in shows up but none of the others do. If I uninstall SP2 all
>is well and the slots appear again.
>
> Any ideas?

The answer was to update my copy of Acronis True Image Home 2009 to the
latest version and it all works fine again!