Generic Volume Driver not working/recognized

[Disturbed]

I have a Western Digital My Book external USB drive and also a USB card
reader. Both have been running for months on my Gateway CX210X notebook
under VISTA. Suddenly neither work anymore. When I plug them in, they try to
install and I get a window entitled "Found New Hardware Unknown Device". The
message states:

" Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error
while attempting to install it.

Generic Volume

The system can not find the file specified. If you know the manufacturer of
your device, you can visit its website and check the support section for
driver software."

Never before did I ever need to install any drivers other than the generic
drivers provided by windows to make these devices run.

I have tried to install drivers from my windows\system32 folder and its
subfolders, but that does not seem to work.

Does anybody have any advice?

Stuart J. Cohen

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Go to Start/Run, and type DEVMGMT.MSC , highlight the USB Root Hub
device(s), Action menu, "Uninstall", then Action menu, 'scan for hardware
changes", to find the device drivers again automatically.

[yourgoodimbetter]

I found this worked for me

System: I'm currently running Vista Home Premium 32 bit with a HP a6130n desktop computer.
Issue: WPD FileSystem Volume driver software. Properties status shows "This device cannot start. (Code 10)"
symptoms: install WPD FileSystem Volume driver software after every login

The issue is the same although i noticed one of the card readers were missing under computer folder. Instructions are as follows:

1. Right click computer under the start tab and select manage
2. Click on the Device manager tab. You will see the ! in "WPD FileSystem Volume driver software."
3. Click on Disk drives and disable each one until the WPD FileSystem disappears.
4. Reinable all the drives then right click the problem drive and select properties.
5. Click on the volumes tab then select "populate" then note down what Disk number the populate assigned it.
6. Go back to the Computer Management window. On the left side is a folder called Disk Management(under the Storage folder). Select Disk Management.
7. At the bottom is a list of disks. Right click the disk number you populated for the problem drive and select "Change drive letter and paths.."
8. Assign the drive letter and go back to the Device Manager.
9. problem gone.